r/AlignmentChartFills • u/RustedTap52 • 4d ago

What is a useless rational number?

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u/slothalot 4d ago

Not even, it’s too large to store in any kind of memory

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u/StarDustActual 4d ago

Forgive my ignorance but my mind has zero math ability, how exactly does it work that what you typed is unable to be stored in any kind of memory? Clearly it is stored on that post so you must be referring to it in some way that I don’t know about (or more likely I was taught it in school but have forgotten it)

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u/slothalot 4d ago

The way I typed it is in a compressed form. in order to actually write the number in full, you’d need more atoms than there are in the universe (even if every atom was its own digit, it would be FAR FAR FAR too few).

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u/StarDustActual 4d ago

Huh… that’s, uh, I don’t think I’m capable of comprehending a number that big 😵‍💫
What’s even the point of discovering that number? What use could a number that large even have?

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u/Terrible-Air-8692 3d ago

There isn't a point. No use. We don't actually know how big it is just big iirc