BB(10) > Graham's Number

surprisetalk 65 points 61 comments October 13, 2026
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kekqqq

I fail to understand why this is interesting or relevant. The README is very non-human-generated and hard to parse or understand.

philipwhiuk

One problem with LLMs in academic contexts is that because you're paying by the token, it's resulting in extremely short papers that don't adequately explain the context. It's the same problem with long-standing short papers. And this is a fine example of this.

deanCommie

IMHO an output of a function being bigger than Graham's number isn't particularly impressive. Consider TREE(3) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DWAwwViU Graham's Number is notable for being one of the first, being an actual relevant bound in an unrelated proof (not just the output of a function), of teaching people the Up Arrow Notation. To me, BB(10), TREE(3) etc. being so large is only minorly more impressive than GG(1) where I define I define GG(x) as "Graham's Number + X"

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