Add new comment

Permalink

Why no mention of his chained arrow notation that renders Graham's number trivial to express compared to the much less capable Knuth up-arrows?
As a connoisseur of incredibly gigantic numbers (see the put.com web project "Counting really,Really,REALLY High") I consider that his greatest achievement.

Filtered HTML

  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a href hreflang> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul type> <ol start type> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.