User blog comment:Superman37891/Request for a new rule/@comment-30754445-20170605000835/@comment-30754445-20170605160404

As strange as it may seem, even though Pellucidar used some fancy jargon, his extension is just as silly and futile as mine (and yours).

This "Bachman Howard Ordinal" (BHO) recursion he invoked is still nothing when compared to Rayo's function. So it's pMoreover, doing what he did is a pretty standard trick in googology.

Now, I'm not a mind reader, so I don't know what Pellucidar's intentions were with that post. But if he did try to compete or boast his googologial abilities, then he did a pretty lousy job. This is due to at least 3 reasons:

1. As I already stated, BHO-level recursion is laughingly small when compared to Rayo.

2. Invoking a technical term ("BHO in the fast growing hierarchy") is a far cry from actually understanding that term. Anyone could learn to spout a dozen similar examples like that in five minutes, but that doesn't make them any more knowledgable or intelligent or worthy of praise.

3. The term "BHO in the fast growing hierarchy" doesn't even define a specific number. It only specifies a rough scale. As an analogy, it's like saying "my number is millions of times bigger than Rayo's number". Without saying how many millions you're talking about, it's not an actual number.

At any rate, I guess these replies were in poor taste though. We could have straight-forwardly explained the situaiton instead of sarcastically hinting at it. And we could have definitely refrained from using technical jargon that serves to confuse the issue more than it serves to clarify it.

It's just that the veterans here have a past sour experience with guys who post salad number after salad number while completely ignoring the feedback they receive. After two dozen times of trying to explain these things and being ignored, it's hard not to get sarcastic. So I apologize for that.