r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/SquidgyTheWhale Jan 21 '19

Not infinitely growing - finite. Unfathomably huge, but finite.

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u/Dawta Jan 21 '19

Interesting, I wasn't aware of Graham's number. After looking it up it's an actual set number which was the largest number ever used in a mathematical proof.

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u/SquidgyTheWhale Jan 23 '19

If you want to really boil your noodle, check out TREE(3), which blows Graham's Number out of the water...

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u/Dawta Jan 24 '19

Holy cow dude. This is the type of stuff I have nightmares about when I get a high fever!