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Extremely Large Numbers 1 - Introduction

Giroux Studios · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Recreational & visual mathComputability & complexity theory

What it is

The first video in a series on extremely large numbers, introducing the topic with examples. Later parts go deep into the fast-growing hierarchy.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended in large-number threads as going further than other popular videos on Graham's number and ordinals.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I would also recommend Giroux Studios' 'Extremely Large Numbers'[1]”

    Goes further into the fast-growing hierarchy than Metzler's videos

    speakeron, 2018-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is”

  2. “Recently watched the Extremly large numbers [1] youtube series, which nicely complements Baez's series with examples.”

    Series on extremely large numbers with examples

    yk, 2016-07 · Recommendation · in “Large Countable Ordinals, Part 1”

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Topics: googology, graham's number, fast-growing hierarchy, ordinals

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