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He's gonna be walking for a little bit (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (35 children)

I don't get it. Is "tree" some kind of notation?

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago (3 children)

TREE is an extremely fast-growing function in set theory. TREE(1) equals 1, TREE(2) equals 3, and TREE(3) equals a number so large that its lower bound easily dwarfs Graham's Number.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

its lower bound easily dwarfs Graham's Number.

Yo you don’t gotta throw shade on Grahams number like that, it’s doing its best

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well, that escalated quickly.

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