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Comment by IsTom

1 day ago

And still that requires X to not be particularly large. It could conceivably be in ballpark of BB(40).

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AnimalMuppet  1 day ago

You, sir, have a very different definition of "not particularly large" than I do!

  • Sharlin  1 day ago

    To be fair, BB(40) is smaller than almost all positive integers.

    • db48x  1 day ago

      It’s practically zero, in fact.

jonathrg  1 day ago

This feels like saying there are probably hundreds of stars in the universe

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