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-1 Post author: Psychohistorian 01 February 2011 08:11AM

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 01 February 2011 01:15:38PM *  13 points [-]

Scott Aaronson's excellent "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?" should definitely be read by everyone.

Comment author: cousin_it 01 February 2011 08:21:03PM *  2 points [-]

Those hungry for followups should see this HN discussion (note the comments by Eliezer) and this one on MathOverflow. Also there's a related problem about specifying big computable numbers, discussed on HN here. Both problems seem to be related to defining large countable ordinals, though a detailed discussion of the relationship is too large for this margin to contain.

Comment author: beriukay 01 February 2011 02:04:25PM *  2 points [-]

83; I win.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 01 February 2011 04:12:18PM 5 points [-]

Wrong.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 02 February 2011 05:12:11PM 0 points [-]

upvoted because people's time is much better spent learning about BB than about creative recursion.

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