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1. kstrau+Ug[view] [source] 2026-02-02 19:54:47
>>tromp+(OP)
What's the biggest up-arrow notation number you can spell with 64 bits?

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/KnuthUp-ArrowNotation.html

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2. shhssh+zr[view] [source] 2026-02-02 20:37:28
>>kstrau+Ug
`9↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑9` seems like a reasonable guess (barring encoding cheats/trickery like @masfuerte commented!)

Edit: I've misread the above comment and my number is is 64 bytes (significantly more than 64 bits. The largest 64 bit number through my approach would be `9↑↑↑↑↑↑9`, which is significantly smaller.

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3. lisper+oA[view] [source] 2026-02-02 21:19:00
>>shhssh+zr
I can do you one better and specify that the normal base-2 integer represented by the bits is the number of up-arrows. But as /u/tromp has already pointed out, that is not very interesting.
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