Comment by ravi-delia
3 years ago
Very true, but in all fairness the proposed solution of using Turing machines is pretty reasonable. I think the title is a play on Scott Aaronson's "largest number" game.
3 years ago
Very true, but in all fairness the proposed solution of using Turing machines is pretty reasonable. I think the title is a play on Scott Aaronson's "largest number" game.
Sure, but where do you stop?
I think a more interesting question is "what's the largest number usefully representable in 64 bits?".
My thinking is that the article isn't really investigating the largest number you can share in 64 bits- as you say, it's sort of meaningless. Instead, like the biggest number game, it's a lead in to talk about some neat topics in theoretical computer science