Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[Elskeggso]

RacingPete said:

There you go http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

"is a very, very big number"... love that

[anonymous-user]

Elskeggso said:

RacingPete said:

There you go http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

"is a very, very big number"... love that

I never took maths at anything higher than GCSE level, so I have what I imagine is a very basic, and more than likely idiotic, question...

Wiki said:

It is the answer to a problem in an area of mathematics called Ramsey theory, and is the biggest number ever used in a mathematics study. The last ten numbers in Graham's number are 2464195387

If that's the case, why can't I change the number 7 to a number 8 at the end of "Graham's Number", call it "Nyphur's number", and have the new biggest number in the world? Until someone changes it to a 9 that is anyway

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 18th November 14:39

[Mazdarese]

Nyphur, you are a genius!

[Silent1]

Can people please put descriptions, it's a real pain opening something to realise you know about it already

[Mr Will]

Nyphur said:

Elskeggso said:

RacingPete said:

There you go http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

"is a very, very big number"... love that

I never took maths at anything higher than GCSE level, so I have what I imagine is a very basic, and more than likely idiotic, question...

Wiki said:

It is the answer to a problem in an area of mathematics called Ramsey theory, and is the biggest number ever used in a mathematics study. The last ten numbers in Graham's number are 2464195387

If that's the case, why can't I change the number 7 to a number 8 at the end of "Graham's Number", call it "Nyphur's number", and have the new biggest number in the world? Until someone changes it to a 9 that is anyway

There are bigger numbers that exist, Nyphur's number being one example, but unlike Graham's number they are not the answer to any (useful) question.

[Gun]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

"The Tunguska event, or Tunguska explosion, was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia about 7:14 A.M. on June 30, 1908."

[anonymous-user]

Mr Will said:

Nyphur said:

Elskeggso said:

RacingPete said:

There you go http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

"is a very, very big number"... love that

I never took maths at anything higher than GCSE level, so I have what I imagine is a very basic, and more than likely idiotic, question...

Wiki said:

It is the answer to a problem in an area of mathematics called Ramsey theory, and is the biggest number ever used in a mathematics study. The last ten numbers in Graham's number are 2464195387

If that's the case, why can't I change the number 7 to a number 8 at the end of "Graham's Number", call it "Nyphur's number", and have the new biggest number in the world? Until someone changes it to a 9 that is anyway

There are bigger numbers that exist, Nyphur's number being one example, but unlike Graham's number they are not the answer to any (useful) question.

Useful question: Which numbers are bigger than Graham's number?
USeful answer: Nyphur's number.

[omgus]

Nyphur said:

Useful question: Which numbers are bigger than Graham's number?
USeful answer: Nyphur's number.

So can someone set up a Nyphur's Number wiki page? and link it from Grahams Number?

Being on wiki would make it official and everything.

[Frankeh]

Just add 1 to Grahams number..

[anonymous-user]

omgus said:

Nyphur said:

Useful question: Which numbers are bigger than Graham's number?
USeful answer: Nyphur's number.

So can someone set up a Nyphur's Number wiki page? and link it from Grahams Number?

Being on wiki would make it official and everything.

The maths bores would tear it to shreds within seconds.

So from Mr Will's response, it seems that nothing is stopping there being a bigger number - its just that the number isn't a useful solution to any problem?

[Ganglandboss]

Mr Will said:

Nyphur said:

Elskeggso said:

RacingPete said:

There you go http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

"is a very, very big number"... love that

I never took maths at anything higher than GCSE level, so I have what I imagine is a very basic, and more than likely idiotic, question...

Wiki said:

It is the answer to a problem in an area of mathematics called Ramsey theory, and is the biggest number ever used in a mathematics study. The last ten numbers in Graham's number are 2464195387

If that's the case, why can't I change the number 7 to a number 8 at the end of "Graham's Number", call it "Nyphur's number", and have the new biggest number in the world? Until someone changes it to a 9 that is anyway

There are bigger numbers that exist, Nyphur's number being one example, but unlike Graham's number they are not the answer to any (useful) question.

Why go to all that trouble remembering all that when we know the real answer is 42?

[Gun]

Nyphur said:

omgus said:

Nyphur said:

Useful question: Which numbers are bigger than Graham's number?
USeful answer: Nyphur's number.

So can someone set up a Nyphur's Number wiki page? and link it from Grahams Number?

Being on wiki would make it official and everything.

The maths bores would tear it to shreds within seconds.

So from Mr Will's response, it seems that nothing is stopping there being a bigger number - its just that the number isn't a useful solution to any problem?

I think a new wiki page should definitely be made for this momentus discovery, just think Nyphur, you'd be famous/infamous in the maths world for a few days!

[Mazdarese]

Project Excelsior

Project Excelsior was a series of high-altitude parachute jumps made by Colonel (then Captain) Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1959 and 1960 to test the Beaupre multi-stage parachute system. In one of these jumps Kittinger set world records for the highest parachute jump, the longest parachute drogue fall and the fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere, all of which still stand.

[anonymous-user]

Mazdarese said:

Project Excelsior

Project Excelsior was a series of high-altitude parachute jumps made by Colonel (then Captain) Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1959 and 1960 to test the Beaupre multi-stage parachute system. In one of these jumps Kittinger set world records for the highest parachute jump, the longest parachute drogue fall and the fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere, all of which still stand.

Incredible stuff. Must have been terrifying when he believed he was stuck "floating" in space due to no wind noise or visual references.

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 18th November 15:37

[JD]

Nyphur said:

Mazdarese said:

Project Excelsior

Project Excelsior was a series of high-altitude parachute jumps made by Colonel (then Captain) Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1959 and 1960 to test the Beaupre multi-stage parachute system. In one of these jumps Kittinger set world records for the highest parachute jump, the longest parachute drogue fall and the fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere, all of which still stand.

Incredible stuff. Must have been terrifying when he believed he was stuck "floating" in space due to no wind noise or visual references.

Edited by Nyphur on Thursday 18th November 15:37

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw8OJJQ_hgk&feature=related

[TTwiggy]

Nyphur said:

omgus said:

Nyphur said:

Useful question: Which numbers are bigger than Graham's number?
USeful answer: Nyphur's number.

So can someone set up a Nyphur's Number wiki page? and link it from Grahams Number?

Being on wiki would make it official and everything.

The maths bores would tear it to shreds within seconds.

So from Mr Will's response, it seems that nothing is stopping there being a bigger number - its just that the number isn't a useful solution to any problem?

Q: What do you get if you add 1 to Graham's Number?

A: Nyphur's Number.

There you go...

[blindswelledrat]

Nyphur said:

Useful question: Which numbers are bigger than Graham's number?
USeful answer: Nyphur's number.

Good work. Exactly what I was thinking.
Its like an intellectual game of being a child and saying "Alright, infinity plus one"

[omgus]

TTwiggy said:

Nyphur said:

omgus said:

Nyphur said:

Useful question: Which numbers are bigger than Graham's number?
USeful answer: Nyphur's number.

So can someone set up a Nyphur's Number wiki page? and link it from Grahams Number?

Being on wiki would make it official and everything.

The maths bores would tear it to shreds within seconds.

So from Mr Will's response, it seems that nothing is stopping there being a bigger number - its just that the number isn't a useful solution to any problem?

Q: What do you get if you add 1 to Graham's Number?

A: Nyphur's Number.

There you go...

Oh if we have to appease maths bores.

What is Graham's number plus the square of 1?

[dreamz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star

india's biggest political scandal of all time...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields

[Elskeggso]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

Theory of a human/chimp hybrid.