There is another way to look at this question. It come from an idea of Georg Cantor who lived from to Cantor looked at comparing the size of two sets, that is two collections of things. True enough, but there is nothing as large as infinity either: infinity is not a number. Nothing is larger than the end number because by definition it is the last number. A zillion is a huge but nonspecific number. Zillion sounds like an actual number because of its similarity to billion, million, and trillion, and it is modeled on these real numerical values.
The sequence of natural numbers never ends, and is infinite. You could contrive a situation where it takes you one second to say the first number, and then each time you say a number you count twice as fast.
Then, it would take two seconds to count to infinity. This definition defines there to be no real numbers larger than infinity.
And, by this definition, if we are talking about the set of all real numbers, then omega equals infinity— if omega is defined to be the last element in a set ; however, see Infinity plus one — Wikipedia. Even though infinity is not a number, it is possible for one infinite set to contain more things than another infinite set.
The smallest version of infinity is aleph 0 or aleph zero which is equal to the sum of all the integers. Aleph 1 is 2 to the power of aleph 0. There is no mathematical concept of the largest infinite number. No, there is no end to the counting numbers 1, 2, 3, and so on.
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He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name. It was first suggested that a googolplex should be 1, followed by writing zeros until you got tired.
This is a description of what would happen if one actually tried to write a googolplex, but different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have [Primo] Carnera a better mathematician than Dr. The googolplex then, is a specific finite number, with so many zeros after the 1 that the number of zeros is a googol.
A googolplex is much bigger than a googol, much bigger than a googol times a googol. Me: If you think googol is the biggest number, then what about googol-and-one? Or two googol? Or a googol googol? In a last-ditch effort to hold onto the hope that there is indeed such a thing as the largest number….
True enough, but there is nothing as large as infinity either: infinity is not a number. It denotes endlessness. A number designates a specific amount. So, finally we get to a consensus: There is no such thing as the largest number. Yet numbers as large as googol or googolplex continue to tantalize, and well they should.
To me the most fascinating thing about googol is how incredibly enormous it actually is. So it would be a one followed by 74 zeros —still way, way, way less than a googol.
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