What’s the Biggest Number?

What’s the Biggest Number?
by Bernard Murphy on 08-09-2016 at 7:00 am

Time for a little fun again. Most of us played this game when we were kids. It fairly quickly degenerates into “infinity plus one” or the even more preemptive “whatever you say next plus one”. But if you’re not allowed to use infinity and you have to name the number and demonstrate how you get to it, is this still interesting? For mathematicians… Read More