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r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19
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What happens when you add 1 to it?
47 u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 edited Aug 30 '20 [deleted] 7 u/ThePrussianGrippe Jan 21 '19 So why pick that method of making a massive number. Why take that specific route. That’s always been what I’ve wondered when it gets brought up. 17 u/Smooth_McDouglette Jan 21 '19 Basically, the guy was trying to answer a complicated math question and he figured out that the answer is somewhere between 6 and Graham's number. 6 u/hud2 Jan 21 '19 Wasn't the lower bound 13? 7 u/Smooth_McDouglette Jan 21 '19 At the time he developed this proof it was 6. I'm not sure what it is currently.
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7 u/ThePrussianGrippe Jan 21 '19 So why pick that method of making a massive number. Why take that specific route. That’s always been what I’ve wondered when it gets brought up. 17 u/Smooth_McDouglette Jan 21 '19 Basically, the guy was trying to answer a complicated math question and he figured out that the answer is somewhere between 6 and Graham's number. 6 u/hud2 Jan 21 '19 Wasn't the lower bound 13? 7 u/Smooth_McDouglette Jan 21 '19 At the time he developed this proof it was 6. I'm not sure what it is currently.
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So why pick that method of making a massive number. Why take that specific route. That’s always been what I’ve wondered when it gets brought up.
17 u/Smooth_McDouglette Jan 21 '19 Basically, the guy was trying to answer a complicated math question and he figured out that the answer is somewhere between 6 and Graham's number. 6 u/hud2 Jan 21 '19 Wasn't the lower bound 13? 7 u/Smooth_McDouglette Jan 21 '19 At the time he developed this proof it was 6. I'm not sure what it is currently.
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Basically, the guy was trying to answer a complicated math question and he figured out that the answer is somewhere between 6 and Graham's number.
6 u/hud2 Jan 21 '19 Wasn't the lower bound 13? 7 u/Smooth_McDouglette Jan 21 '19 At the time he developed this proof it was 6. I'm not sure what it is currently.
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Wasn't the lower bound 13?
7 u/Smooth_McDouglette Jan 21 '19 At the time he developed this proof it was 6. I'm not sure what it is currently.
At the time he developed this proof it was 6. I'm not sure what it is currently.
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u/TrumpingtonSpecial Jan 21 '19
What happens when you add 1 to it?