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“what is the biggest number”

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The biggest number in the world is so big that mathematicians don’t even think it exists.

Top 5 biggest numbers, according to me.

  1. 5
  2. 1 Million
  3. 100 Billion
  4. 999 Trillion
  5. Brazillian

Original post: https://xcancel.com/ChatgptLunatics/status/1995441330986598532

  • groucho@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

    Here’s a fun game: ask gemini to accurately represent all digits in the largest number possible with a 64-bit float. So far I’ve gotten 0,000 and a 65,013-digit number that’s mostly zeroes.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      18 minutes ago

      Interesting. This is what ChatGPT came up with which at least sounds plausible:

      The largest finite value representable in an IEEE-754 64-bit (double precision) float is

      DBL_MAX=(2−2−52)×21023=(253−1)×2971

      Its exact decimal expansion (all digits) is:

      179769313486231570814527423731704356798070567525844996598917476803157260780028538760589558632766878171540458953514382464234321326889464182768467546703537516986049910576551282076245490090389328944075868508455133942304583236903222948165808559332123348274797826204144723168738177180919299881250404026184124858368

      (309 decimal digits).

      Commonly shown in scientific notation: approximately
      1.7976931348623157 × 10^308 (this is the usual rounded display).

      • groucho@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 minutes ago

        That … is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Insist on accuracy in all 309 places and see what happens.

        Then ask it to find the prime factors.

        edit: it’s not about getting the right answer. it’s about hurting computers.