The Biggest Numbers in the World Size Comparison

What's the largest number you can imagine? Trillions of trillions? If you're not a professional mathematician and not some cool physicist, the answer is probably approximate. And could we visualize this number? Nope, we're not going to write out all of those zeros on paper. I suggest having a look at a device that shows the total number of atoms in the universe. And even surpasses it. I agree, this doesn't sound very realistic. But such a mechanism does exist, and I managed to find it.

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[aexzaea]

"No matter How large a number is, It is still closer to 0 than to infinity"

[danielbruin]

Even if I could spin the first gear at the speed of light. It still won't even come close to turning the last gear. :)

[erwinruff]

Has he tried spinning the mechanism from the other side? Imagine how fast the first wheel would spin xD

[Zordiak]

10 minutes you barely mentioned Graham's Number and you didn't even reference the thumbnail at all. Gonna be a "Do not recommend channel" from me.

[thingsforpaul]

Me, an intellectual: *infinity*

Vsauce: **starts explaining why i’m wrong**

[ossifyn]

The thumbnail is horrifyingly out of scale

[ShynohEclipse]

You can only put a comma if you have 3 digits coming after it. The fact that you end with one zero irritates me.

[fgwp]

A quintillion is pretty easy to imagine in the real-life scale.
Imagine a small cube with an edge of one millimeter.
Then imagine a cube with a one kilometer edge.
There is one quintillion millimeter-cubes in a single kilometer-cube.

[harrypotalonzo]

Skips the number "Sextillion", Cause- yes.

[MrSkeelton]

I'm irritated that he doesn't describe the largest number.

[helenadowney]

Biggest numbers in the world:

My student loan: am I a joke to you?

[Enddeous]

Fun fact about Googolplex: If you were to write it out, each and every zero, you would run out of space. Even if you had the superpower to write a zero on every atom in the observable universe, you would still run out of space, as googolplex has 10^100 zeroes, but there are only about 10^80 atoms in the entire observable universe.

[johannesvanderhorst]

Unfortunately, this video doesn't explain what Graham's Number is. Fortunately, I can try. I start with some simple calculations most people should understand.
3+3 = 6
3*3 = 3+(3+3) = 9
3^3 = 3*(3*3) = 27
Now it becomes more complicated. The pattern above can be continued, but instead of the power notation one could also notate these numbers with upward arrows, but I will notate it with just "|".
3|3 = 3^3 = 3*(3*3) = 27
3||3 = 3|(3|3) = 3^3^3 = 7, 625, 597, 484, 987. Here this number can be expressed as a "tower" of three exponentials.
3|||3 = 3||(3||3) = 3^3^...^3, a tower of 3||3 exponentials, on which the first calculation has to be done at the top of the tower.
3||||3 = 3|||(3|||3), a number so gigantic it will just be expressed as "G1".
To reach Graham's number this way it will still take a while. So I will skip some steps, but note that each time, we still keep the formula 3|||... (n 'arrows') ...|||3 = 3|||... (n-1 'arrows') ...|||(3|||... (n-1 'arrows') ...|||3). Until now we have yet reached n = 4 this way.
3|||... (4 'arrows') ...|||3 = G1
3|||... (G1 'arrows') ...|||3 = G2
3|||... (G2 'arrows') ...|||3 = G3
...
3|||... (G63 'arrows') ...|||3 = G64 = Graham's number

[RhiannonDQ]

So you’re telling me there are more possible game states in chess than there is atoms in the known universe

[velpex]

Was expecting him to start with “This is Arnold”

[Mr_Mooseman]

I love how mathematicians are always competing to see who can think of the number with the most zeros

[corygrell]

You didn't even define Graham's Number.

Now that we have specifically defined all of these things and given concrete examples of them in the universe, here is a term that is bigger with no definition, no comprehension, and no context. End of video.

[WalidFeghali]

9:02 You're saying 10^94 books weigh as much as the Milky Way, when known atoms in the universe are 10^78. What am I missing here? They should weigh many magnitudes higher than all of the universe.

[ryansatoshi]

Riddle: Gogol
Me as an Intellectual: Ten Duotrigintillion

[Jaspal]

Robots in 10, 000 years: counting every atom in the universe