RE: [math-fun] Announcement: Atlas of Natural Numbers
David Wilson wrote: << In the near future, I intend to begin serious development on my Atlas of Natural Numbers, a web site devoted to collecting and organizing interesting information about individual natural numbers.
This sounds great. Can you answer a question I've had for some time? I'd like to know the smallest positive integer that cannot be described with fewer than fifteen English words. --Dan
Depends on the vocabulary. Do you allow Googolplex, Tower, or the idea needed to describe Graham's number? This could get quite arbitrary. For example "A tower of 9's as high as a tower of 9's of height 9**9." Etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: <dasimov@earthlink.net> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:51 PM Subject: RE: [math-fun] Announcement: Atlas of Natural Numbers
David Wilson wrote:
<< In the near future, I intend to begin serious development on my Atlas of Natural Numbers, a web site devoted to collecting and organizing interesting information about individual natural numbers.
This sounds great. Can you answer a question I've had for some time? I'd like to know the smallest positive integer that cannot be described with fewer than fifteen English words.
--Dan _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
Wish I could help you there, but I'm still looking for the smallest positive integer requiring twelve English words to describe it. ----- Original Message ----- From: <dasimov@earthlink.net> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:51 PM Subject: RE: [math-fun] Announcement: Atlas of Natural Numbers
David Wilson wrote:
<< In the near future, I intend to begin serious development on my Atlas of Natural Numbers, a web site devoted to collecting and organizing interesting information about individual natural numbers.
This sounds great. Can you answer a question I've had for some time? I'd like to know the smallest positive integer that cannot be described with fewer than fifteen English words.
--Dan _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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