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  • The arrows you mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation

    For most people it comes under the realm of "maths trivia" because it's never practically useful. You wouldn't have seen it before unless you hang around with maths nerds or read about maths for fun. So I wouldn't feel stupid if I were you.

    Graham's number is a fucking massive number that is an upper bound/maximum on the answer to some question about colouring.

  • it's never practically useful

    Numbers above about 10184 are of dubious utility, since that's the approximate volume of the observable universe in cubic Planck lengths 🙂

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