Timeline for What's the largest number you can spell?
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 3:12 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | Per Alexandersson | thousand! (i is upside down, and becomes the factorial symbol). | |
| Nov 10, 2014 at 16:43 | comment | added | Cfinley |
Wish I could answer. c squared, which comes out to be about 8.98755179 × 10^16, is the best I could do.
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| Nov 10, 2014 at 8:37 | comment | added | Tim Couwelier | Oh the irony. The one trying to score 'points' by giving attempted witty or 'out of the box' answers, is annoyed by people trying to do it on his own question. | |
| Nov 10, 2014 at 1:20 | comment | added | user2322 | Related to the unrestricted form of the question: Profs Duke It Out in Big Number Duel Two Philosophers Vie to Write Largest Possible Finite Number on Chalkboard. Another account of the duel (with winning entry) can be found at Big Number Duel. Links are fun to chase from there. | |
| Nov 9, 2014 at 22:25 | comment | added | Tim S. | You did not precisely define the question in the question. It is nonsense to then claim that answers are cheating/loopholes when they meet the little criteria you specified, but weren't quite what you had in mind. (you might redefine the question to exclude certain types of answers, but do so in the question for all to see, and know that means you might tick off the earlier answerers) | |
| Nov 9, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | I really want to find a way to say "the least number that cannot be expressed using at most one of each letter of the alphabet" using at most one of each letter of the alphabet. This number necessarily is larger than any correct answer, but if we can express it within the rules then it's also a correct answer, hence contradiction. But I haven't got any such expression yet. | |
| Nov 8, 2014 at 21:21 | vote | accept | warspyking | ||
| Nov 8, 2014 at 21:11 | answer | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 8, 2014 at 18:27 | vote | accept | warspyking | ||
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| Nov 8, 2014 at 18:25 | answer | added | Nonsingular | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 8, 2014 at 11:26 | vote | accept | warspyking | ||
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| Nov 8, 2014 at 11:25 | history | edited | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
deleted 40 characters in body; edited title; deleted 2 characters in body
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| S Nov 8, 2014 at 5:40 | history | suggested | Damian Yerrick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
"Subtract" is unusable per comments; added "isogram" keyword to title of this hot Q to make it look less like an ELL (English language learners) question
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| Nov 8, 2014 at 5:36 | answer | added | do-the-thing-please | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 8, 2014 at 5:31 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 7, 2014 at 23:43 | vote | accept | warspyking | ||
| Nov 8, 2014 at 11:26 | |||||
| Nov 7, 2014 at 21:00 | comment | added | warspyking | @Bobo I know, I'm just going wait for a response to my meta post. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 20:54 | comment | added | Bobo | I understand that you would want an answer that interprets the question as you see it (since it is your puzzle). You're free to accept whichever answer you agree with (or were expecting). I'm just pointing out that some people like thinking outside the box and finding interesting answers (which we know are loopholes) so you didn't have to comment that on every answer. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 20:46 | comment | added | Bobo | @warspyking calm down about everyone using loopholes. That's the fun of it. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 20:16 | comment | added | warspyking | @Time use "minus" | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 19:08 | comment | added | TheRubberDuck | @Muqo a very large portion of those are exactly what I'm intending to exclude. Numbers like "a dozen" or "eleventy" might have accepted meanings, but those are just special names given to special numbers. It should be pretty clear which numbers are included. However, the overloadedness of, say, "million" does cause a problem. in any case, the answer should be clarified. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 18:31 | history | protected | user20 | ||
| Nov 7, 2014 at 18:22 | comment | added | Muqo | @EnvisionAndDevelop Language, locale, and letters are a different issue. Please view: googology.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_googologisms | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 17:51 | answer | added | Alex N. | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 17:01 | comment | added | TheRubberDuck | The question is answerable with the (entirely reasonable) assumption that this is about American or British decimal number systems and using only English letters. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 16:07 | answer | added | COTO | timeline score: 44 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 15:43 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 7, 2014 at 14:26 | answer | added | Keysharpener | timeline score: 24 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 14:04 | comment | added | Muqo | I don't think this question is answerable. Various people have invented competing or mutually exclusive large number systems with various levels of acceptance. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 14:00 | answer | added | Narmer | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 13:05 | answer | added | Christopher | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 12:43 | comment | added | Joost | @TimCouwelier The word 'n[e]gativ[e]' itself cannot be formed with just one alphabet, so I'm afraid that won't fly. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 12:29 | answer | added | v010dya | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:27 | answer | added | GOTO 0 | timeline score: 25 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:26 | answer | added | Mazura | timeline score: 15 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:20 | answer | added | Andrea Gottardi | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:11 | comment | added | Tim Couwelier | As for bonus: do you need to use letters for 'negative'? If so 'negative four' is the first contender I can come up with for bonus 1. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:09 | history | asked | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |