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Oliver Schick
Maths wizzes:
I’m trying to convey/‘comprehend’ how massive Graham’s number is, by explaining the first steps to calculate it. Is the following correct?
G=g64
3 ^ 3 ^ 3 ^ 3 =
3 ^ 3 ^ 27 =
3 ^ 7,625,597,484,987
g1= 3 ^ (3 ^ 7,625,597,484,987) in a tower (3 ^ 7,625,597,484,987) high?
g2= g1^g1^g1.... creating a tower of ^g1 that is (result of power tower #g1) high?
And so on for g3, g4, and all the way to g64?
Edit- explaining in laypersons terms to other laypeople, leaving aside strictly correct notation. Edit2 with what I think is a corrrction having read the wiki page (missed a tower).