User blog:Bubby3/Mental torture.

How to torture someone mentally! Make them imagine how big Graham's number is. Pertend an evil torturer is doing that to me

Torturer: Try your best to visulalize these numbers. Let's expnlan up-arrow notation. Single arrows represent  exponentation. 3^3 is 27

Me:Not very big.

Torturer: Now double arrow is repeated single arrow, so a^^b is a^a...a^a with b a's

Torturer: 3^^3 is 3^27 or around 7.6 trillion (explains how big a trillion is).

Me:This is getting big!

Torturer: Now let's introduce you to triple-arrows. Triple arrows are just repeated double-arrows, so  3^^^3= 3^^(3^^3) = 3^^(7.6 trillion). So you have a stack of exponents 7.6 trillion high. Let's show  you how big that is.

Torturer: 3^^4 is 3 to the power of 7 trillion, or a number with trillions of digits.

Me: That is big!

Torturer: To continue, the next double-arrow is 3 to the power of the last one. So we make a power-tower 7 trllion 3's high.

Me: AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SOOOOOOOO BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tortuer: You noticed that the arrow is just iterated one less arrow. So quadruple-arrows are iterated triple-arrows.

Torturer. 3^^^^3=3^^^(3^^3), or 3^^^(The number I said last!), or 3^^3^^3..3^^3^^3 with 3^^^3 3's.

Torturer: So, we create a series of power towers with the height of the last power tower. The first power tower is equal to 3. The seocnd power tower is 7.6 trillion. The third power tower is 3^^3, which you hust yelled at. The nth power tower is equal to 3^^^n. So we take the 3^^^3th power tower.

Me: NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! THIIIIIIIIIIIIS ISSSSSS SO MUUUUUUCH BIIGGER I CAN'T COMPREHEND IT!!!

Torturer: That is equal to G1. Now G2 has G1 arrows, G3 has G2 arrows, on up to G64, which is Graham's number

Me: I LITERALLY CAN"T COMPREHEND HOW BIG THIS NUMBER IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S SOOOOOOO SOOOOO MUCH BIGGER THAN I IMAGINED IT WILL BE!!!!!!!!!!

Torturer: Graham's number is on the low end of large numbers in googology.

Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I THOUGHT GRAHAM'S NUMBER WAS THE BIGGEST BECAUSE IT IS SO BIG THAT SO BIG IS AN EXTREME UNDERSTATEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW BIG ARE THE BIG NUMBERS IN GOOGOLOGY?