What is a very large indefiinite number?? we barely use it ??? VERY VERY LARGE??NOT INFINITY?? A NUMBER???
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How about Grahams number? Its so big, that its impossible to write down, even using powers, because the power alone would exceed the number of atoms in the universe. \nAnd believe it or not, it was even used in some mathematical proof. Check out the source.
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In decimal form the number 9^9^9^9^9^9 is so large that if every atom on the planet was to represent a digit we still wouldn't have enough room to represent the number.\n\nIn other words, Yahoo definitely doesn't have enough disk space to represent the number you're interested in.
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I am working on a project (a long one, no answers yet) that involves INFINITY and requires a good understanding of it.\n\nI found one infinity website so far (months) that was not very good (had international contributors, but I already zapped the url).\n\nThere are mathematical considerations of INFINITY, best found in math reference section at university or NYC public library, or equivalent.\n\nBUT, the BEST GLIMPSE, to use your word, I have ever found in many years of looking is THE URANTIA BOOK.\n\nYou can find urls for this on the right hand side of my blog at http://spaces.msn.com/up-escalator\n\nI would recommend reading the whole book, and that will take some time, in the months and years range.  You read this stuff with mind engaged, not like a Bond novel.\n\nThe project I am working on is to explain, in a manner assimilable by swift teenagers, the Seven Absolutes of Infinity.\n\nIn just o few sentences:  Infinity means there is A LOT MORE than what we are now seeing.  More than three dimensions plus time.  And more variety than we can possibly imagine.\n\nMuch of this is invisible to us, or even to our minds, unless we make the effort.  Francis Bacon was one person who really thought about things invisible.\n\nSince the subject is ENDLESS, we will only get a glimpse as you say, no matter how far we go.\n\nBut the attempt is a journey well worth the effort.\n\nDon't be in a hurry, you picked a biggie.
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Numbers, such interesting topics. Think of it like this. If you have one tomato, and you add another one, you have two. add another one, you have three. This process never ends. although, scientists are still researching about what infinity is. for now, we shall stick with what we got.
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There's no answer actualy. O cannot be divided by 0. \nThe answer infinity is just an assumption when \nnumber really near to 0 divided by another number near to 0.\n\nSuch as 0.0000000000000000001 / 0.0000001\nAlthough the example doesn't really show number near to 0, but if you change to 0.00000000000000000....01, you will see the same result
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There is no highest number or a smallest/lowest number. whatever number you can think off, just add 1 and you get the next bigger number. Similarly subtract 1 to get the next smallest number.\nThe numbers are infinte.\nThe biggest named number is googolplex. That is 1 followed by one googol zeroes (a googol - is 1 followed by 100 zeroes = 10^100) \nGoogolplex = (10)^(10^100)
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That is a very theoretical question that mathmaticians don't like to hear.\nZero was just recently added to math. Before it wasnt even a number. It was only an idea.\nThink about it this way,\n What happenes when you zoom in to the size of a proton? Now a needle point seems like infinity to you. \nWhat about the size of a string( if you believe in string theory)? Now an electron seems infinitely big.\nInfinity and zero are so relative to the observer that they must be related.  \nThe problem with this relationship is that it breaks down mathematics to only an observation and not an absolute truth. Every mathmetician thinks that math is the universal language, and no mathematician or physicist for that matter wants to even ponder the possibility that everything they have dedicated their life for could have flaws. \nSo as an everyday person 1/0 is just undefined. \nBut to anyone who wants to think past our rules of math and see ideas zero is just as indefinite as infinity.
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"Dividing by nothing" doesn't mean you would do nothing.  It means, "how many piles of nothing (zero) would you have to add up to get to the original number?".  \n\nHow many piles of zero would you have to have in order to have 2?  The answer isn't even infinity, because you would still never have 2.  So it's not possible, and 2/0 can't be represented by any number.
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AARGHHH!!  I withdraw my earlier attempt.  It must be dementia, I'm afraid.  It's still asking about 1000! (1000 factorial), of course, but a careful accounting is needed, not only of the effect of all numbers ending in: \n\nA. 1, 2, 3, ... 9 (I did this by a variety of ways, always coming up with a final non-zero digit of 6 for the product of all such sets), \n\nbut also of the following two other types of number, which I regrettably neglected the first time around:\n\nB. 10, 20, 30 ...90 (as often as sets of numbers like that occur), and finally, of types:\n\nC. 100, 200, 300, ... 900 (this set occurs but once).  The final, unique 4-digit number (1000) only adds three zeros at the end and doesn't affect the final non-zero digit.\n\nO.K., here goes:\n\nNumbers of Type A.\n\n1 x 2 x 3 x ... x 9 = 362880; final non-zero digit is 8.\n\nThere are 100 such "basic sets" of type A altogether.  \nMultiplying them together, set after set, we get the \nfollowing repeated cycle of non-zero ending digits \n(top row is # of basic sets used so far; bottom row is the corresponding final digit.)\n\n1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 ...\n8   4   2   6   8   4   2   6   8 ...\n\nNotice that after every four basic sets have been used, we end up with 6 as the final non-zero digit.  Since there are exactly 100 such sets (a multiple of 4), we end up with that same last non-zero digit for the product of ALL numbers of type A.  (But we're not done yet.) \n\nNumbers of Type B.\n\nThere are exactly 10 sets of numbers of Type B, i.e. ending with  exactly one (but not two or three) zeros.\n\nMultiplying just these sets together, we'll have the following analogous results:\n\n1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  \n8   4   2   6   8   4   2   6   8     4   \n\nSo, the last non-zero digit in these "10's products" is 4 for this lot.\n\nNumbers of Type C.\n\nWe have just one set of "100's".  For this, the last non-zero digit is 8 (it's just our "basic set" with a large number of zeros following it); only the last non-zero digit is of interest.\n\nSo, to summarize, the different sets we've divided our numbers into, when multiplied together, give us final non-zero digits as follows:\n\nType A:   6\nType B:   4\nType C:   8 \n\nFinally, then, the last non-zero digit of the product of everything is the last digit of:\n\n6 x 4 x 8, or 2.  (PHEW!!)\n\nWell, it's now the value of 2 (as reported by zanti3 from the 100 factorial website at:\n\nhttp://www.justinwhite.com/big-calc/1000.html)\n\n(Finish off this URL with 1000.html, instead of 1000... The Yahoo site would not reproduce the full URL from my draft.  Alternatively, just go to Yahoo or Google with 1000 factorial 1000 - this worked for me.) \n\nBoy; what a problem!  Evidently the jury is still out on the question of my impending dementia.  (See zanti3's kind words, below about my earlier fiasco.) \n\nThanks again to zanti3 for bringing the existence of a (1000 factorial) web site to my attention.\n\nLive long and prosper, everyone.
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Infinity is NOT a number; it is simply never ending.\n\nTo answer your question about infinity minus infinity, here is probably the simplest way to explain this: infinity minus infinity has three possible answers: 0, infiity, and some constant I will provide an example for each answer using one anology:\n\nImagine you have a bag of infinite marbles. What would happen if you removed ALL the marbles in the bag, you would have none in the bag (thus infinity minus infinity is zero).\n\nWhat happens if you remove all the even numbered marbles? Since there is an infinite number of even marbles, as well as an infinite number of odd numbered marbles, you have infinity minus infinity equaling infinity (all the infinite even marbles were removed, but there are still an infinite number of odd marbles in the bag).\n\nWhat happens if you want to have all but 3 marbles in the bag? You have to remove the all of them but 3. Thus infinity minus infinity equals a constant.\n\nTo answer your question about (0/0) - (0/0) This is simply undefined: you CANNOT devide by 0. An undefined value does not necessarily mean that it is infinite; there is a difference.\n\nInfinity divided by invinity will provide you the same answers as the subtraction problem. Zero raised to any power will always be 1 and infinity raised to the infinite power will more than likely be infinity.\n\n\nI hope this answers your question as to the concept of infinity.
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No, numbers never stop.  There is a sign for infinity that looks like a sideways, stretched number 8.
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There is no such thing as a highest possible number. No matter what number you have, there is always a larger one. (For example, you could always add 1 to your number to get a larger number). The largest number that has a commonly-known specific name is a "googleplex",
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Uh, the whole thing falls down in part 6. Infinity is not a number. Its a limit.
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Dont be fooled by the guy that might answer "Infinity plus one."  You know the problem with that.  How about "Infinity times infinity."
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This is an odd question because we are treating ininity like a number. Half of something going to infinity is still going to infinity. There are ways to count different infinities -- there are countable and uncountable ones -- but dividing by 2 does not make a difference.\n\nMy advice is ignore the half infinity for this reason and treat it as a particle in free space. This is common answer which can be found in all text books. The way to approach is take a finite square well and find the condition as we increase the boundries to infinity. They will be the same answer -- namely a free particle in space.
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Probably the number of protons in the universe. (it's an estimate) It's a figure that is 102 digits long and all different digits.   Not just 1 with 100 zeros after it.  The biggest number known is a googleplex. A google is 1 with 100 0's after it and a googleplex is 1 with a google amount of 0's after it... it's huge.  Curiously there are only just enough protons in the universe to write it down, and that's using one proton per number...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_and_fictitious_large_numbers\n\nlook at that