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What is the biggest number? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Lemminary@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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“what is the biggest number”

AI Overview

The biggest number in the world is so big that mathematicians don't even think it exists.

Top 5 biggest numbers, according to me.

  1. 5
  2. 1 Million
  3. 100 Billion
  4. 999 Trillion
  5. Brazillian

Original post: https://xcancel.com/ChatgptLunatics/status/1995441330986598532

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[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Here's a fun game: ask gemini to accurately represent all digits in the largest number possible with a 64-bit float. So far I've gotten 0,000 and a 65,013-digit number that's mostly zeroes.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Interesting. This is what ChatGPT came up with which at least sounds plausible:

The largest finite value representable in an IEEE-754 64-bit (double precision) float is

DBL_MAX=(2−2−52)×21023=(253−1)×2971

Its exact decimal expansion (all digits) is:

179769313486231570814527423731704356798070567525844996598917476803157260780028538760589558632766878171540458953514382464234321326889464182768467546703537516986049910576551282076245490090389328944075868508455133942304583236903222948165808559332123348274797826204144723168738177180919299881250404026184124858368

(309 decimal digits).

Commonly shown in scientific notation: approximately
1.7976931348623157 × 10^308 (this is the usual rounded display).

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That ... is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Insist on accuracy in all 309 places and see what happens.

Then ask it to find the prime factors.

edit: it's not about getting the right answer. it's about hurting computers.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I would but I don't have the depth of knowledge for this. I just wanted to see if it'd spit out some nonsense. 😅