You have a small piece of paper which you can only write five symbols on. What is the largest number you can make?
Symbols include numbers, arrows, multiplication signs, etc. You can't put a variable representing a large number like TREE(3), or the infinity symbol. You CAN come up with new symbols to represent more complex mathematical operations.
I am a college undergrad who plays a lot of incremental games, many of which use their own notations for representing cartoonishly large numbers. I've also done some surface level research on things like Knuth's Up Arrow Notation, which inspired the question - what is the most "efficient" way to write large numbers?
This is really not my field so I'm not sure exactly what the limits of my question are, or even what type of math this is, but feel free to satisfy my curiosity!
u/Swimming-Birthday428 — 10 days ago