What's the largest number?

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Taken from: Question Corner -- Largest Possible Number?

There is no such thing as a highest possible number. No matter what number you have, there is always a larger one. (For example, you could always add 1 to your number to get a larger number).

What you are intending to ask is "what is the largest number that anyone has ever decided to give a specific name to?" It is very important to understand that this is a completely different question from the one you asked, because it is a question about human culture not about mathematics.

The largest number that has a commonly-known specific name is a "googleplex", which is a 1 followed by a googol zeros, where a "googol" is (IMAGE) (a 1 followed by 100 zeros).

However, there would be nothing stopping you from giving a special name to a still larger number (such as a googleplex plus 1), and then that would become the largest named number once the term became commonly known.

In summary, then: the mathematical question "what is the highest possible number" has no answer, because there is no such thing. But the sociological question "what is the largest number that anyone has ever decided to give a specific name to, a name which has become commonly known" is, for now, a "googleplex" (until someone decides to coin a phrase for a still larger number and it catches on and becomes commonly known).

-RODION

It's "googolplex", not "googleplex". :P

[ßattousai]

so it should be GOOGOLPLEXIONAIRE not GOOGLEPLEXIONAIRE.. hehe

[emailroy2002]

there is no such largest number..

[ronz_rodz]

i think infinity is the largest number

[bedouin]

wala pa man guro largest number karon kay sige man gadaku ang numero

[MalditohoN]

naa koy natanAwan sauna sa kids channel or unsa to but as far as i can remember it was said:

"the biggest number was 1 plus 600 zeros" - i don't know what its called but mao na siya...

[edzofcit]

It's "googolplex", not "googleplex". :P

Nganu diay gi banned ang user na ni comment ani? kay nang correction?

[rodsky]

Nganu diay gi banned ang user na ni comment ani? kay nang correction?

Excuse me but are you accusing the moderator of this thread of banning this user on a whim?

Fact #1: I did not ban this user.

Fact #2: Even if I wanted to ban this user, I wouldn't have banned him just for that shallow remark.

Fact #3: I didn't even read his post about that correction until now.

Fact #4: If you keep making assumptions about matters similar to this, both on the web, or in day-to-day discourse, and you regularly do this, to the point of making it a habit, then good luck to you sir, on all your future endeavors.

-RODION

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largest number kay pi man siguro kay di known ang exact number. siguro lang ha

[edzofcit]

Excuse me but are you accusing the moderator of this thread of banning this user on a whim?

Fact #1: I did not ban this user.

Fact #2: Even if I wanted to ban this user, I wouldn't have banned him just for that shallow remark.

Fact #3: I didn't even read his post about that correction until now.

Fact #4: If you keep making assumptions about matters similar to this, both on the web, or in day-to-day discourse, and you regularly do this, to the point of making it a habit, then good luck to you sir, on all your future endeavors.

-RODION

Im sorry if you've got it wrong, just asking.