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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's not the number that makes something big, it's what it's counting. 67,502 atoms isn't very impressive, but 1 universe is!

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

8 is a big number of gunshot wounds.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

50 is that you?

[–] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's a pretty unimpressive number of universes, though.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's the amount we are 100% certain of that they exist

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

99.999% certain*

You cant exclude the chance conspiracy theorists are right

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

First of all, yes we can. We have tons of experimental proof. Secondly, even if the earth is flat or whatever it must still exist inside some form of a universe.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

It's the most that's ever existed

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

Not really, though. Big numbers are a separate branch of mathematics. A googolplex, for instance is more than the number of atoms in the observable universe, but it's way smaller than grahams number.

What it counts is not exactly the point is more of a definition exercise of what the upper bound is of what we can imagine it put in words. Sometimes it has functionality, such as the largest Mersenne prime.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its more impressive to count 67502 atoms than to count 1 universe

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"67,502! 67,502 atoms, ah, ah, ah!"

thunder and lightning

[–] genuineparts@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thunder and lightning

Very, very frightning me

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Five! Five Galileos, ah, ah, ah!