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What obscure thing you enjoy do you never get to talk about? (lemmy.world)

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Loosely inspired by how much people seemed to enjoy a similar question I asked on Games about unappreciated titles. But answers don't have to be media related (they still can be though).

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[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Googology. The "study" of ridiculously large numbers. It's a rabbit hole of recursion and mathematics that starts with stuff like googolplex (10^10^100) and never really ends.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is it not (10*10^100)?

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

By 10^10^100 I mean 10^(10^100), which is significantly larger than (10^10)^100 = 10^(10*100).

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

But isn’t that googolplex? If it’s not, I’m so sorry lol

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, 10^10^100 is equal to a googolplex.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Sorry, I read it initially as googol

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