Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

[graderjs]

https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

[psyc]

But who can give the best names to big numbers? Probably Jonathan Bowers.

https://googology.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan_Bowers

http://www.polytope.net/hedrondude/scrapers.htm

[philzook]

But who can _prove_ the biggest number https://github.com/codyroux/name-the-biggest-number

[Ishmaeli]

A(G,G)

https://xkcd.com/207/

[jjmellon]

The number that can only be named with too many words.

[flemhans]

This took me 15 s:

9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9^9

[carl_dr → flemhans]

Read the article and take another 15s. That was one of the naive examples he gives near the start.

[tihsllub → flemhans]

You win

[bradknowles]

Maybe "Googolplex!" ?

[bradknowles → bradknowles]

Nope. Gotta use an infinite nested series of Busy Beaver functions, or something like that.