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[–] [email protected] 72 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Infinity is technically not a number tho πŸ€“β˜οΈ

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Definitely not a real number.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

Not an imaginary number either

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They all are, except the imaginary ones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

What about quaternions?

[–] passiveaggressivesonar 28 points 19 hours ago

The boss isn't an employee either 😎

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

but it is quite big

[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

It's not the number that makes something big, it's what it's counting. 67,502 atoms isn't very impressive, but 1 universe is!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Not really, though. Big numbers are a separate branch of mathematics. A googolplex, for instance is more than the number of atoms in the observable universe, but it's way smaller than grahams number.

What it counts is not exactly the point is more of a definition exercise of what the upper bound is of what we can imagine it put in words. Sometimes it has functionality, such as the largest Mersenne prime.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

8 is a big number of gunshot wounds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

50 is that you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Its more impressive to count 67502 atoms than to count 1 universe

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"67,502! 67,502 atoms, ah, ah, ah!"

thunder and lightning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

thunder and lightning

Very, very frightning me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Five! Five Galileos, ah, ah, ah!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That's a pretty unimpressive number of universes, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

it's the amount we are 100% certain of that they exist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

It's the most that's ever existed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

9136 looks so excited to be in their presence. I wonder if that was intentional (starting the number with a 9, which, coupled with the eye, makes a left-facing face) or happenstance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Good artists think of all those things. Note how the 9 β€œopened up” more to be like smiling and standing at greater attention in respect, and in the other the number the 2 has it’s foot tucked behind itself in shame as it’s apologizing. Good stuff :-)

[–] Brkdncr 6 points 20 hours ago
[–] UNY0N 3 points 19 hours ago

Infinity is not a number. Still hillarious though.

[–] Pissmidget 3 points 22 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago