Outline of Combinatorics - Living With Large Numbers

Living With Large Numbers

  • Names of large numbers, long scale
  • History of large numbers
  • Graham's number
  • Moser's number
  • Skewes' number
  • Large number notations
    • Conway chained arrow notation
    • Hyper4
    • Knuth's up-arrow notation
    • Moser polygon notation
    • Steinhaus polygon notation
  • Large number effects
    • Exponential growth
    • Combinatorial explosion
    • Branching factor
    • Granularity
    • Curse of dimensionality
    • Concentration of measure

Read more about this topic:  Outline Of Combinatorics

Famous quotes containing the words living, large and/or numbers:

    “Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.”
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)

    “There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “And when all bodies meet
    In Lethe to be drowned,
    Then only numbers sweet
    With endless life are crowned.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)