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

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