Ramsey number

Too big to write but not too big for Graham

Meet the number that's bigger than the observable Universe!

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Sometimes a mathematical object can be so big that, however disorderly we make the object, areas of order are bound to emerge. Imre Leader looks at the colourful world of Ramsey Theory.
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