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1. rurban+Hh2[view] [source] 2023-04-24 10:51:45
>>tromp+(OP)
But then inf, e.g. calculated by 1/0 would be the largest number
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2. Chancy+Pi2[view] [source] 2023-04-24 11:01:44
>>rurban+Hh2
You didn’t read the article.

It asks for the largest terminating number.

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3. rurban+jK5[view] [source] 2023-04-25 11:57:00
>>Chancy+Pi2
Probably better than you. There is no such thing as a terminating number, and the article mentions "the shortest terminating program to produce the largest number whose output size exceeds Graham's number". Which should be an expression better than ack(9,9). But since you can emit just inf, you don't need a turing machine/lambda calculus at all.
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4. kadoba+W36[view] [source] 2023-04-25 13:51:45
>>rurban+jK5
Infinity isn't a specific value, it's not interesting in this context.
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