User:ArtismScrub

what is this
I suppose if I ever decide to do something on here, I should introduce myself first.

''Note: This bio here is my first experience editing something on Wikia. I'm not entirely familiar with how the formatting works. I'm going to be typing this as if this bio will only show up on Googology Wiki, which I presume it will--if you can see it elsewhere, please notify me somehow.''

Hi, I'm ArtismScrub. I'm not a professional mathematician in any way, I'm just some random 9th grader that actually has an interest in math. Rare type, huh?

So, how I gained an interest in googology. It started with a YouTube video by Vsauce called "How to Count Past Infinity". While trying to explain how large infinity is, he made up a number that went: "a googolplex factorial to the power of a googolplex to a googolplex squared... times Graham's number" (which, looking back at it, is a pretty bad salad number) and I was like... what's Graham's number? I had heard of the googol and googolplex, but not Graham's number. I shrugged and kept watching. Eventually, quite a while later, I decided to look up Graham's number. Numberphile has several videos on Graham's number--I clicked on one of them. I can't remember which.

I was appalled, to say the least. Before that I couldn't imagine such numbers so large that they couldn't be conceivably expressed with repeated exponentiation, and now I was introduced to this thing called up arrow notation that leaves exponentiation in the dust, and then this mighty number that can only just barely be expressed with THAT kind of notation!! It opened up a whole new world of numbers for me, only for me to look in the comments section and see mentions of EVEN LARGER numbers such as TREE(3) or Rayo's number. Like any transitioning layman, my first thought was something along the lines of GG(G(G(...(G(64))...)))) with G64 Gs to create something comparable to those numbers (I later found out that such a number has been coined as "Hypergraham"). However, I later learned that any such iteration was naive and worthless compared to such high beasts.

Later on, I was introduced somehow to a website on Google Sites called Pointless Large Number Stuff. In it, I had learned a LOT of things about googology, most of which I didn't initially understand and a lot of which I still don't understand. I was also introduced to Sbiis Saibian's and Robert Munafo's number sites, and am currently making my own that I will release when I feel I've gotten enough done (I'm barely any farther than a million on the number list). All of my other googological memories are a bit of a blur.

I'll do something on this wiki one day, I swear.