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Comment by Scarblac

8 months ago

Yes, that's only some normal number amount of orders of magnitude. Even 10,000,000^10,000,000 is already so large that it doesnt matter, let alone after exponentiating _the exponent_ nine times more.

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wizzwizz4  8 months ago

It's the other way around: we're talking about 10^(10^(10^(10^…))) (which is vastly bigger).

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