The Daddy of Big Numbers (Rayo's Number) - Numberphile
1,960,403
Published 2020-04-12
More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Busy Beavers on Computerphile: • Busy Beaver Turing Machines - Compute...
With thanks to Agustín Rayo himself. Read more from Prof Rayo at: web.mit.edu/arayo/www/bignums.html
And see his website at: arayo.scripts.mit.edu/home/
Tony Padilla: twitter.com/DrTonyPadilla
Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI): bit.ly/MSRINumberphile
We are also supported by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science. www.simonsfoundation.org/outreach/science-sandbox/
And support from Math For America - www.mathforamerica.org/
NUMBERPHILE
Website: www.numberphile.com/
Numberphile on Facebook: www.facebook.com/numberphile
Numberphile tweets: twitter.com/numberphile
Subscribe: bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub
Video by Pete McPartlan and Brady Haran
Patreon: www.patreon.com/numberphile
Numberphile T-Shirts and Merch: teespring.com/stores/numberphile
Brady's videos subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/
Brady's latest videos across all channels: www.bradyharanblog.com/
Sign up for (occasional) emails: eepurl.com/YdjL9
All Comments (21)
-
Imagine is Adam Elga had accidentally erased that second 1 and ended up writing 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and lost immediately
-
This is what most 4 year olds imagine that mathematicians do for a living. They get into an arena with screaming crowds, and have a competition for who can think of the biggest number.
-
one-hundred-and-eleven-trillion-one-hundred-and-eleven-billion-one-hundred-and-eleven-million-one-hundred-and-eleven-thousand-one-hundred-and-eleven" Rayo said, calmly. "ELEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Elga screamed at the top of his lungs.
-
Am absolutely shook after that factorial move. Is this an anime?
-
The factorial thing was pure genius
-
I would have conceded defeat after the 2nd move.
-
you know things got serious when the participants of the big number duel are philosophy professors and not math professors
-
14:14 I love how Elga is standing there for eternity as all the fans have left, watching Rayo writing away his defeat
-
Sounds like a grown up version of "I hate you x20" "I hate you x1000"
-
"So can I write this number down, professor?" - "Well, that kind of depends on the nature of Dark Energy."
-
Rayo: Makes the biggest number ever Comments section: Yeah... but the other guy did the factorial thing
-
Rayo basically “+1”ed all of mathematics, which is genius.
-
Rayo: 111111111111111111111111111111111 Elga: 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ron: Well that escalated quickly
-
"That depends on the nature of dark energy" is now my go to response for any question I don't understand.
-
"But we can write it down" I like his enthusiasm
-
I love when kids make up big numbers like: "dinotillion" "Million Billion Trillion"
-
When two kids wouldn't give up and keep on increasing their own dad power level
-
rayo: *writes down many many 1s elga: im gonna what's called a pro gamer move
-
This says something so incredible about human imagination I’m not sure how to put it into words.
-
2:06 From what I read (the MIT newspaper The Tech did a report on the event), Elga actually went first by just writing the number 1, then Rayo added a bunch more behind.
