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>>tromp+(OP)
Please no more comments to the extent of "i can define a much larger number in only 1 bit". What makes my blog post (hopefully) interesting is that I consider tiny programs for computing huge numbers in non-cheating languages, that are not specifically equipped for doing so.

>>tromp+oz
Which is what makes the headline bait. We start with "The largest number representable in 64 bits" (which obviously depends on the representation, and as the baited comments point out, if that's freely settable, we can just set it arbitrarily high). But the body then moves the goalposts to "using a Turning machine", "using a Turing machine with specific parameters fixed", to "lambda calculus", etc.

This is now (at least) "The largest number representable by a Turning machine of fixed parameters that can then be squeezed into 64 bit."

(I don't remember my lambda calc, so … eh.)