answer comments on New Monthly Thread: Bragging - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Joshua_Blaine 11 August 2013 05:50PM

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Comment author: Kindly 12 August 2013 11:47:43AM *  16 points [-]

...62535796399618993967905496638003222348723967018485186439059104575627262464195387.

Boo-yah.

Edit: obviously this was not done by hand. I used Mathematica. Code:

TowerMod[base_, m_] := If[m == 1, 0, PowerMod[base, TowerMod[base, EulerPhi[m]], m]];

TowerMod[3, 10^80]

Edit: this was all done to make up for my distress at only having an Erdos number of 3.

Comment author: answer 12 August 2013 06:31:49PM *  5 points [-]

Impressive, I didn't think it could be automatized (and even if it could, that it could go so many digits before hitting a computational threshold for large exponentials). My only regret is that I have but 1 upvote to give.