I bet they caught the BIGGEST NUMBER EVER of the HEAVIEST FISH EVER
but they got away.
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the fishing was rained off. we were halfway out of town this morning at 5.30 when a text came through saying that the river was in the fields.
off tomorrow again though
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Originally posted by scotspine View Posti'm afraid that even with your perspicacity alf, the incalculable shall remain, for the time being at least, the incalculable. it's a pet hobby of mine [prime number distribution/prediction] and it's almost as elusive as the salmon i'll be chasing tomorrow. had 2 [returned] on monday and hoping for greater things tomorrow.
Aye SP
In the same way that Grey Slates remain - Grey Slates - sadly the incalculable will remain - incalculable.
How did you get on with the Fishing ?Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 20 August 2009, 14:58.
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i'm afraid that even with your perspicacity alf, the incalculable shall remain, for the time being at least, the incalculable. it's a pet hobby of mine [prime number distribution/prediction] and it's almost as elusive as the salmon i'll be chasing tomorrow. had 2 [returned] on monday and hoping for greater things tomorrow.
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Originally posted by scotspine View Posti suspect he meant the visible universe?
i was interested in how some of cantor's stuff impacted on the riemann hypothesis linky and how mandelbrot's work in the imaginary field could be inducted via cantor into it. i suspect a link between them all and a computer which can handle the production of large primes would help.
Fascinating thought about your Prime Number generator computer concept - or perhaps you have a prototype - could we - dare we ? - calculate the incalculable ?
Find out !Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 19 August 2009, 21:24.
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i suspect he meant the visible universe?
i was interested in how some of cantor's stuff impacted on the riemann hypothesis linky and how mandelbrot's work in the imaginary field could be inducted via cantor into it. i suspect a link between them all and a computer which can handle the production of large primes would help.
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Originally posted by PerlOfWisdom View PostNo, that's a googol. A googolplex is ten to the power of a googol.
It's impossible to write the number, it has 10^100 digits which is more than the number of atoms in the universe.
But there is another school of thought which maintains that the Universe is Infinite - and that would imply an infinite number of atoms.
Then along comes Cantor who maintains there are in fact Three Levels of Infintity.
But in an Infinite Universe(s) - an Finite Universe must also exist - its all enough to give one a bit of a headache.
My take ?
Appoximately Infinite - more or less Incalculable.``
Whoops - got to dash - rice puddings getting burnt !Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 19 August 2009, 21:09.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostAnd therefore it follows that no computer has ever calculated anything positive.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostOne. It puts lots of them in a row to create the impression of representing bigger numbers; but that's just a matter of interpretation.
And therefore it follows that no computer has ever calculated anything positive.
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Originally posted by PerlOfWisdom View PostNo, that's a googol. A googolplex is ten to the power of a googol.
It's impossible to write the number, it has 10^100 digits which is more than the number of atoms in the universe.
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
The largest number with a name is a googolplex which is only 100 digits long. I think Python's inbuilt calculator can handle numbers that big. If not, there are free downloadable long number calculators that definitely can.
It's impossible to write the number, it has 10^100 digits which is more than the number of atoms in the universe.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostMy software sometimes accidentally calculates infinity.
Do I win?
Thanks for your help Boys !
I liked HABs response - cheeky ! - good to see HABs cheered up and no longer worrying himself senseless about Cosmic debris catastrophes - oh thats torn it !
VectraMan - very very warm - because I heard in a bar once the biggest number ever calculated was appoximately Infinite by an IBM SuperDuper 4341 Computer - you know what I came back with ?
What colour was the computer ?
He nearly spat his lager out at that one !
Weekend everybody !Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 14 August 2009, 12:50.
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