User blog comment:Swooped me in one hit/laudens number./@comment-30754445-20170215203205

"Then you place 10↑10 arrows between the tens"

I won't accept that, unless you can build this process on your own without referencing up-arrows.

You say "I have to express this number in a way that will get people to see just how big it is" but that's not true. The veterans here could estimate how big any well-defined number is (in this case, it's KH10 which is actually the exact value).

The real reason you have to express this number with up arrows, is that you're not yet skilled enough a googologist to create this kind of growth-rate on your own. And using an already existing notation is not a good measure of how good a googologist you are.

Case in point: I could respond to your number with

{10,10,10,...,10,10,10} with a billion tens (in BEAF)

That would make your "Lauden's Number" look positively cute. But if I don't know how BEAF really works, what's the point of doing that? It doesn't prove I'm a better googologist. It just shows that I happen to know about the existence of a more powerful ready-made notation.

What's more: even though my number is way bigger, your number is actually slightly better. I just copied a ready-made notation and added "with a billion tens", while you actually added something new ("repeat the process 10↑↑↑↑4 times" which isn't much, but its more than I did)