Timeline for Applications of really large numbers
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| May 28, 2020 at 6:05 | vote | accept | Per Alexandersson | ||
| Apr 10, 2014 at 15:48 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 10 | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 14:31 | history | edited | Per Alexandersson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2014 at 14:15 | comment | added | Per Alexandersson | In my opinion, the interesting part here is essentially the existence and finiteness of Grahams bound, not so much the size. If the proof in some sense relies on Grahams number in an essential way, then this is an application, but if there is a lot of extra effort to find a bound of the number, then it does not add so much extra value, I think. Similarly, the recent progress of the twin prime conjecture is not really about the size of the gap between primes, but its finiteness, even though the initial number was a quite large number (70 millions). | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 13:17 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Are you primarily interested in applications of individual large numbers (such as the Skewes number, which by now is just an artifact, or Graham's number which has a curious provenance), or in fast-growing sequences? I'd think it is the latter that has greater theoretical significance. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 12:08 | answer | added | user46855 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 11:39 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Apr 10, 2014 at 11:27 | history | asked | Per Alexandersson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |