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04 Oct 2007, 2:09 pm

the bold numbers are the large numbers, and the italic numbers are the smaller ones that sit high up beside the large numbers.

(962773 + 2)83721



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04 Oct 2007, 2:20 pm

nope suck at math anyways :lol:



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04 Oct 2007, 2:26 pm

80604485775
That's with a calculator though. It'd be simple enough to multiply on paper, but why bother?



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04 Oct 2007, 2:45 pm

962775



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04 Oct 2007, 5:34 pm

The quantity; (9 raised to the power of 62773 plus 2 raised to the power of 1); raised to the power of 83721

or written: (9^63773+2)^83721

Should be written: The bold numbers are the Integers, and the italic numbers are Exponents.



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04 Oct 2007, 6:21 pm

Kit wrote:
The quantity; (9 raised to the power of 62773 plus 2 raised to the power of 1); raised to the power of 83721

or written: (9^63773+2)^83721

Should be written: The bold numbers are the Integers, and the italic numbers are Exponents.


If that's what is meant, then that's screaming huge! Even Mathematica gives me an overflow error. The answer will be somewhere in the order of 10^(5*10^9) though - very roughly. That's a one with 5 billion zeros.



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04 Oct 2007, 8:19 pm

Thanks for all the info :D

Even if the answer is gigantic, I got the info I needed to help a friend.

Thanks again and really appreciated.



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04 Oct 2007, 8:22 pm

Thanks for all the info :D

Even if the answer is gigantic, I got the info I needed to help a friend.

Thanks again and really appreciated.



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14 Nov 2007, 8:40 pm

Kit wrote:
The quantity; (9 raised to the power of 62773 plus 2 raised to the power of 1); raised to the power of 83721

or written: (9^63773+2)^83721

Should be written: The bold numbers are the Integers, and the italic numbers are Exponents.



In other words:

63773 83721
( 9 + 2)


...on other thoughts Kit's expression is simpler!


In computer programming you'd need an e-type variable to express the answer... or maybe that wouldn't be big enough...



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16 Nov 2007, 11:16 am

You know, if you wanted to know the last digit of that number or its remainder with some other number, think that could be more easily done. And without a calculator.


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16 Nov 2007, 12:34 pm

Kit wrote:
The quantity; (9 raised to the power of 62773 plus 2 raised to the power of 1); raised to the power of 83721

or written: (9^63773+2)^83721

Should be written: The bold numbers are the Integers, and the italic numbers are Exponents.


and if you type (9^63773+2)^83721 directly into google it will give you the answer



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16 Nov 2007, 1:49 pm

dddhgg wrote:
Kit wrote:
The quantity; (9 raised to the power of 62773 plus 2 raised to the power of 1); raised to the power of 83721

or written: (9^63773+2)^83721

Should be written: The bold numbers are the Integers, and the italic numbers are Exponents.


If that's what is meant, then that's screaming huge! Even Mathematica gives me an overflow error. The answer will be somewhere in the order of 10^(5*10^9) though - very roughly. That's a one with 5 billion zeros.

A tad larger than that, yes. Not a very large number. It fits between a googol and a googolplex.


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23 Nov 2007, 12:33 am

Darn, and I thought this was going to be about the MacLaurin or Fourier series of infinite formulai... Not much of a challenge, but definitely alot of typing involved. :P

But yeah, arithmetic problem looks like it'll generate a slightly bit GARGANTUAN number...



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30 Aug 2009, 3:47 pm

Jett wrote:
the bold numbers are the large numbers, and the italic numbers are the smaller ones that sit high up beside the large numbers.

(962773 + 2)83721
8.060448578e+10


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30 Aug 2009, 4:20 pm

pigsrock wrote:
Jett wrote:
the bold numbers are the large numbers, and the italic numbers are the smaller ones that sit high up beside the large numbers.

(962773 + 2)83721
8.060448578e+10


Way too small.

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30 Aug 2009, 10:53 pm

According to Wolfram Alpha, the expression evaluates to:

10^(10^9.707130014117412)

This is hardly a large number in the world of mathematics, but not something that a standard desktop computer or search engine is going to generate.