What's the highest number known to man?
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Actually, the largest number named and known is Graham's Number; it is the upper limit to the solution to a problem in an area of Combinatorics called Ramsey-Hunt theory.\n\nTo put it in context, if every particle in the universe were a pot of ink, and you had an infintely large sheet of paper, you would run out of ink before you wrote out the decimal expansion of Graham's Number.\n\nLast I heard--about three years ago--it was the largest number for which any use had been found
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There is no "highest" number.  It is defined by the average, which is scored at 100.  It is measured by standard deviation and presented as a bell curve.\n\nP.S. Looks like llizzzie cut and pasted her entire essay here. Got an axe to grind instead of answering the question?
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Who can honestly tell you here? Our finite minds cannot begin to fathom the infinite workings of the universe. There could have been a countless number before us; 42; 3; or we could be it.\n\nWho knows?
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Well the truth is that there can be no largest number because no matter what the number is you can always add 1 to it.\n\nBut some interesting LARGE numbers to exist. In the show Cosmos by the late Carl Sagan, he talks about two such LARGE numbers called google and googleplex, but first please read below:\n\nHere's just a little idea about numbers:\n\nA 1 followed by 6 zeros is = 1,000,000 (one million)\nA 1 followed by 9 zeros is = 1,000,000,000 (one billion)\nA 1 followed by 12 zeros is= 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion)\n\nand so on by adding three zeros successively you get:\n\nquadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and so on. Most of these numbers you would probably NEVER use.\n\nBut get this, \n\none google = A 1 followed by 100 zeros (whew!)\n\nBut here's the real sinker:\n\none googleplex = A 1 followed by a GOOGLE zeros!!!!\n\nAccording to the show Cosmos, if somebody actually sat and tried to write a GOOGLEPLEX would a require a strip of paper so long that even if folded and folded and folded into smaller pieces could not be contained in the whole universe.\n\nI don't think we will reach a GOOGLEPLEX very soon, but I'm going to create history for you:\n\nGOOGLEPLEX + 1 (now that is a number that is even bigger, though maybe just a little)
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More universe.\n\nWhat's the greatest number you can count to plus one?
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the greatest mystery known to man. ...\n\nSPAM
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453,131,254,369,235,645,641\n\n....and probably more!
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The biggest first number is 9.  You won't find a single digit larger than it.
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Don't know the specs, but the most powerful computer on Earth is called Deep Thought...that would be the one that discovered that the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is "42."
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This question cannnot be answered due to a simple fact that there are infinite amounts of numbers, therefore is no limit to a higher or a lower number.
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According to Pi World Ranking List the current verified world record holder for reciting the most digits of Pi is Hiroyuki Goto who achieved 42,195 digits in 1995.  However, there is an as-yet-unverified claim that Akira Haraguchi recited 83,431 decimal places in 2005.\n\nMost impressive, indeed.\n\nI hope you found that helpful!
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The 43rd discovered Mersenne Prime is:\n\n2 ^ (230,402,457) - 1\n\n...which I believe is also the largest known prime.  It must be written in this notation because the actual number is 9,152,052 digits long.  ^.^
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-999,999,999,999. lets hope one of them is either george w. bush'd, or sudam hussain's ancestor XD
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infinite number that wiull never stop growing
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6,000,000,000,000.  Of course.\n\nAmazing how many people actually answered wrong.  >.<\n\nAlso known as 6 trillion.
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What you are asking is what is the highest number (short of infinity) that has a name?\n\nThe answer to that is a googolplex, which is 1 followed by a googol of zeros (a googol is 10^100\n\nBut in terms of the names that end in -illlion (the system developed by the French mathematician Nicholas Chuquet, 1445-1488, in the late 15th Century) the biggest I know is vigintillion, which is is 10^120 on the English (long) scale and 10^63 on the American (short) scale.\n\nVigintillion embodies the French word vingt for twenty reflecting the fact that a Frenchman devised the system.\n\nBRITISH SCALE\n\n1 million = 10^6\n1 billion = 10^12\n1 trillion = 10^18\n1 quadrillion = 10^24\n1 quintillion = 10^30\n1 sextillion = 10^36\n1 septillion = 10^42\n1 octillion = 10^48\n1 nonillion = 10^54\n\nCarrying on further, we have \n\ndecillion\nundecillion\nduodecillion \ntredecillion\nquattuordecillion \nquindecillion\nsexdecillion \nseptendecillion\noctodecillion \nnovemdecillion\nvigintillion
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I think the question is , what is the largest 6 bit prime number.\n\nWell the largest 6 bit number is 64.  \n\nThus the largest prime number one of these 63, 61, 59, 57... Because it has to be an odd number.  \nI know that 63 is divisible by 3, thun i think the answer is 61.  \n\n(I might be wrong that it is 61, I am not double checking, I will leave that to you)