<randi> http://xkcd.com/c207.html
<randi> i don't get the third one
<randi> someone explain.
<cperciva> randi: Graham's number is really big.
<cperciva> randi: The Ackermann function grows incredibly fast.
<cperciva> randi: Believe me, calling the Ackermann function with Graham's number as arguments is very horrifying.
<randi> oh.
<randi> thank you :)
<randi> cperciva: how big is graham's number?
<randi> and why the hell did he get a number named after him?
<randi> that's fucked up.
<randi> i want a number.
<randi> 37.
<randi> 37 shall from now on be called Randi's number.
I claim 37.
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Hey 37 is my favorite number!!!!
When I was at prep school back in the 50s (trad English beatings and bad food etc etc) we all had numbers. Mine was 42; unfortunately being given the answer long before the question or the mice arrived hasn't done anything for my life (or the universe) at all.
My birthday is a 13th, so I want to have "13" as my number.
#!/usr/bin/perl
user strict;
my $retro=13;
my $sektie=37;
print $retro.$sektie;
Saying that Graham's number is really big is like saying that deep in the ocean is pretty wet.
"It is too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of particles in the visible universe."