Did everyone come to 9^(9^9) because of its mention in James Joyce's Ulysses, or for some independent reason? http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/ulysses/17/ --------- Why did he not elaborate these calculations to a more precise result? Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of the quadrature of the circle he had learned of the existence of a number computed to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of so many places, e.g., the 9th power of the 9th power of 9, that, the result having been obtained, 33 closely printed volumes of 1000 pages each of innumerable quires and reams of India paper would have to be requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of its printed integers of units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, the nucleus of the nebula of every digit of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any power of any of its powers. --------- --Michael On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Eugene Salamin via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
On Thursday, November 16, 2017, 6:24:57 AM PST, Joerg Arndt < arndt@jjj.de> wrote:
I computed 9^9^9 in 1999 just for the kick of it. I seem to recall someone somewhere said that this would never be possible, but have never been able to find (again) that text until now.
Any pointers are welcome.
Best regards, jj
P.S.: with today's computers the computation takes around one minute on a single core. Trivial to calculate in base 9.
-- Gene
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