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xkcd #2966: Exam Numbers (xkcd.com)

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Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely.

explananation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2966:_Exam_Numbers

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (8 children)

For the final answer, I guess Big Omega, unless you don't count infinities in which case my answer is getting up and arguing with the professor because "the number of times I can recursively write TREE(TREE(TREE... is just as arbitrary as declaring a biggest theoretical number and assigning it a new symbol.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The biggest number that can be defined in fewer than twenty words.

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