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10 December 2024

  • curprev 17:5117:51, 10 December 2024Sligocki talk contribsm 3,948 bytes +4 Fix math error.
  • curprev 17:5017:50, 10 December 2024Sligocki talk contribs 3,944 bytes +1,826 Add table of history of TMs beating Graham Tag: Visual edit
  • curprev 17:2917:29, 10 December 2024Sligocki talk contribs 2,118 bytes +2,118 Created page with "'''Graham's number''' (<math>g_{64}</math> or <math>G</math>) is a famously huge number which Martin Gardner claimed was the "largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof" in 1977. Since it is one of the most famous large numbers, it has become a bit of a yardstick for measuring "hugeness". In the specific context of the Busy Beaver game, we can ask, what is the smallest <math>n</math> such that <math>BB(n) > g_{64}</math>. There is an active search for the s..."