Saturday, September 25, 2010

The Moser

Kyle is really interested in numbers. One day, he asked us what is the biggest number. We know infinity is the largest infinite number, but turned to Google to show him how we can look things up. And there we learned some large finite numbers: Googolplex (or as Kyle says, googleflex), then Graham's number. And the other night at dinner, Kyle asked which was bigger - a Googleflex or Graham's number - when we discovered another, larger number, the Moser. And we've helped to clarify that infinity is larger, but it's not a finite number.  And here he is 'counting'.  I unfortunately stopped the video too soon because when he was done, he declared, "I'm really good at counting.  And I am a monkey."  Of course!

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