Questions tagged [big-numbers]

For questions relating to the computation, estimation and properties of extremely large finite quantities that are not usually used in mainstream mathematics. This is not for questions that just have large numbers; the fact that a number is very large has to affect the question.

For questions relating to the handling of large finite numbers. This is related to googology, which is the study and nomenclature of large numbers.

To place a scale, numbers around the size of a googol ($10^{100}$) and larger are considered "large".

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Shannon's number growth rate

Where does Shannon's number lie on the fast growing hierarchy? Also, consider the function of (# of moves so far) -> (# of chess games). How does the growth rate of this function compare to the growth rates on the fast growing hierarchy?
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Big number short representation / approximation

What's an efficient way of representing a big number (up to 100M digits) in a short format. I'm thinking on possible solutions: logs factoriadic prime numbers base Would like precision > 80-90% Would any of that be computable in reasonable…
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