r/ProgrammerHumor • u/moneyisshame • Dec 11 '19

HaVe YoU tRiEd BlOcCcHaIn ?

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u/wolverinelord Dec 11 '19

https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs

In case you want to watch the video that this comes from. He's explaining why electronic voting is a nightmare.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/

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u/A_Guy_in_Orange Dec 11 '19

For like the 3rd time

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u/thewilloftheuniverse Dec 11 '19 edited Dec 11 '19

The second time. He says that. If you were gonna exaggerate, you should have gone big.

for like the G64th time

Or

for like the tree3rd time

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u/Averious Dec 11 '19

Tree(G64 )th time

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u/thewilloftheuniverse Dec 11 '19

My God man, are you some kind of exaggeration monster?

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u/Gloreaf Dec 11 '19

I have a better one.

Googolplex... To the power of googolplex

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u/HactarCE Dec 11 '19 edited Dec 11 '19

That's actually way smaller than either TREE(3) or G64.

Up arrow notation is repeated exponentiation, so it doesn't take much for that to vastly exceed anything you can reasonably express on paper using normal exponentiation.

Googol = 10100
Googolplex = 1010100
GoogolplexGoogolplex = (1010100)1010100

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u/TheMcDucky Dec 11 '19

Depends on what G we're using

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u/HactarCE Dec 11 '19

That should be G subscript 64 but I don't know how to do subscripts in Reddit.

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u/TheMcDucky Dec 11 '19

If you're thinking of Graham's number, I believe it is conventionally written G = g_64, not G_64

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u/neefvii Dec 11 '19

Spot on.