calef comments on Meanings of Mathematical Truths - Less Wrong

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Comment author: calef 06 June 2011 05:56:50AM *  0 points [-]

The joke response would be to let 'n' represent that number.

n+1.

Somewhat related (not really at all, but your post reminded me of it) is Scott Aaronson's digression on "who can name the biggest number": http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

Reality is far too interesting to allow such a limit on itself.