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From cells in our bodies to measuring the universe, big numbers are everywhere
We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line, so there can't be such a thing as a 'biggest number'. Or can there?
To find out, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee embark on an epic quest, revealing the answers to questions like: are there more grains of sand on Earth or stars in the universe? Is there enough paper on Earth to write out the digits of a googolplex? And what is a googolplex?
Then things get serious.
Enter the strange realm between the finite and the infinite, and float through a universe where the rules we cling to no longer apply. Encounter the highest number computable and infinite kinds of infinity. At every turn, a cast of wild and wonderful characters threatens the status quo with their ideas, and each time the numbers get larger.
Contents
Introduction
1 Of Sand and Stars
2 At the Limits of Reality
3 Maths Unbound
4 Up, Up and Away
5 G Whizz
6 Conway's Chains
7 Ackermann and the Power of Recursion
8 Figure This - If You Can
9 Infinite Matters
10 Growing Fast
11 Does Not Compute!
12 The Strange World of the Googologist
13 Bridge to Beyond
14 The Biggest Number of All
Acknowledgements
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