Timeline for How to explain Real Big Numbers?
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 19:49 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 19:39 | comment | added | Josh Kerr | Yeah, after I posted it I realized that it didn't really help. I think the best bet for helping people understand big numbers is taking them through a progression for how to build them. Maybe walking them through the fast growing hierarchy? Successorship, addition, multiplication, exponentiation, tetration, etc.. It does a good job of showing the magnitude of each jump in hyperoperation. You get a sense for the power of the function by the one that came before it. Use something like n=3 for the examples. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 19:35 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | I don't think this really helps understand big numbers . . . | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 19:32 | history | answered | Josh Kerr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |