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Comment by j2kun

11 years ago

>Is there some N such that BB(N) can produce any "arbitrarily large" number? Not infinity because that would mean it doesn't halt, but that there is no number which can not be exceeded by saying in effect "plus 1".

This would imply BB(n) is not well defined. To the contrary, BB(n) is finite for every n.

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