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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. tuhgde+9V[view] [source] 2026-02-02 22:37:25
>>shhssh+zr
Is there any intuition on how big this number is?
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4. tromp+pb2[view] [source] 2026-02-03 07:47:17
>>tuhgde+9V
In terms of the Fast Growing Hierarchy, it's about f_62(9) or what the article would denote as [62] 9. It's way smaller than Graham's Number, which involves 64 iterations of mapping n to 3 ↑↑↑... {n uparrows) 3, whereas this expression has between 1 and 2 iterations.
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