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“what is the biggest number”
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The biggest number in the world is so big that mathematicians don't even think it exists.
Top 5 biggest numbers, according to me.
Original post: https://xcancel.com/ChatgptLunatics/status/1995441330986598532
OK but that's hilarious.
This is the AI I want. Like pure early day chaos where Will Smith couldn't eat spaghetti, that Forever Seinfeld on twitch, the weird recipes like 80lbs of salt.
That's Numberwang! It's time to rotate the board.
It's so funny that Webb and Mitchell made that sketch, clearly poking fun at the tradition of gameshows in the UK, only for David Mitchell to end up marrying Victoria Coren, the host of Only Connect.
I wonder if it came up during a date, and she forced him to pledge allegiance to only connect.
He's also been on WILTY for yonks.
In fact I've seen episodes where they've both been on
I heard there was a earthquake in Rio de Janeiro. The casualties were in the Brazilians.
I was looking for doc's age in the movie...
Aren't there some time travel shenanigans? Maybe they account for six extra years
He goes to a de-aging health spa in part 2, which further complicates things.
It's true. If you ask a mathematician what number is the biggest they won't give you a straight answer.
Like, what even is an aleph?
In set theory, sets containing an infinite number things are relatively easy to describe. For example, "All the counting numbers" is a set with an infinite number of things in it.
Many sets with an infinite number of things have a one to one correspondence to each other, meaning that we can describe a function that takes elements of one set as an input, gives elements of the other set as an output, and spans both sets - no element is skipped on either side.
"All the even counting numbers" has a one to one correspondence with "All the counting numbers". You can look into Hilbert's Hotel for a good demonstration of how this works.
Not all sets with an infinite number of things correspond with the set of all counting numbers, because some are fundamentally bigger. This difference in size doesn't happen just once (e.g. there are countably infinite sets, and uncountably infinite sets, and that's all we need to know), there are actually an infinite number of sets of progressively bigger infinite numbers of elements.
Because this is a confusing mess, we needed a way to keep track of how infinitely big each infinitely big set is, and the aleph cardinalities are the preferred way to do that. Any set with cardinality of aleph zero (aka "aleph null") has a one to one correspondence with any other set with cardinality aleph zero. The same is true for every other aleph cardinality. Two sets of cardinality aleph thirty seven have a one to one correspondence with each other.
Anyways, busy beaver(tree(aleph omega)) is the biggest number.
Pretty sure they were being sarcastic. I mean they know the word aleph which strongly indicates they know what sets of infinite numbers are.
Infinity... times two.
Tbf, some infinities are bigger than others.
Infinity times three no comebacks
"Pick a number - any number - between one and one Brazilian. Don't tell me the number. Now multiply it by 3..."
Honestly this is a great answer
I want a Brazilian dollars lol
To be fair, there are a ton of people living in Brazil. There are like, Brazillians of them.
80085
This is likely fake, but still funny. I just tried it and got a reasonable answer.
Could still be real. Ai will give different answers to the same question.
It's quite plausibly real. Gemini can def get in shitposty basins and has historically had a fairly inconsistent coherence across samples.
I thought the biggest number was one morbillion
Every time I see one of those AI fuckups and try it myself, it never works :/
It's pretty easy to fake one using the developer tools in your browser.
They aren’t deterministic. There are a few common ones that are cached, but if you get bad (or good?) RNG in the response generation you’ll never manage to get the same result as someone else.
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.
Garbage in, garbage out
If this is real an unedited... maybe ai wasnt a mistake
Haha, this reminds me of sitting in bed with my 4 year old talking about big numbers.