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Googology Wiki is an online encyclopedia and community dedicated to large numbers.

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New to big numbers? Googology is the mathematical study of large numbers, their properties, and their nomenclature. If you're interested in the subject, but you don't know where to start, try reading about some basic functions and ideas: Short essay on the foundations and history of the field Googol and googolplex Tetration Arrow notation Graham's number Introduction to Googology blog post by Sbiis Saibian List of googologisms List of googological functions Also, be sure to check out the links below. Around the Wiki About Policy People IRC Discord New pages · New images Recent changes · Logs Other wikis Article Count Progress We have reached 0% of our goal of 10100 articles! Quote Large Numbers have done vastly more to make infinity seem large than infinity has ever done to make large numbers seem small.   —Sbiis Saibian[src]

Contributing Got an idea or a creation to share? Sign up for Wikia if you haven't already, and create a blog post. Found googology from a third-party source that isn't in the encyclopedia yet? Create a new article. Article creation is temporarily banned whilst notability guidelines are being revised. GoogolNews​™ January 1, 2024: Happy New Year, 2024! December 5, 2023: Googology Wiki turned 15 years old! November 21, 2023: Ukrainian Googology Wiki in the name of Вікі Googology was linked to our community! October 22, 2023: We reached our 18,000-th article! That's 90% of the way to the big 20,000! June 29, 2023: We finally reached our 17,000-th article! June 8, 2023: Googology Wiki underwent several technical issues related to the assets, so Fandom wikis wouldn't render properly for a brief period, including, but not limited to this wiki and Community Central. The issues were subsequently fixed in the later days. Sorry for an another mess! May 11, 2023: We finally reached our 16,000-th article! April 20, 2023: MediaWiki was upgraded to 1.39. March 18, 2023: Yet another big milestone... We finally reached our 15,000th article! February 28, 2023: Fandom announced that Googology Wiki would be migrated to MediaWiki 1.39 by April 20. February 10, 2023: We reached the 14,000-th article! January 14 – 20, 2023: We held the second admin election, and relieved C7X's admin and bureaucrat career! January 12, 2023: We opened the second admin election, and is set to hold by January 14, 2023. January 1, 2023: Happy New Year, 2023! More news... Links This is a compilation of websites that may be of interest to large number enthusiasts. For beginners Large numbers increasing Douglas Shamlin Jr.'s video series about increasing numbers. It goes from zero to numbers described using Bird's array notation. Recommended for beginners. One to Infinity: A Guide to the Finite by Sbiis Saibian/(user), a guided tour of googology and number systems. Recommended for beginners. Large Numbers by Robert Munafo. Recommended for beginners. Sites Aarex Googology by Aarex Tiaokhiao/(user (inactive)) Big Number Central by Jonathan Bowers Notable Properties of Specific Numbers by Robert Munafo Super Huge Numbers (main site) by Chris Bird Pointless Large Number Stuff by wiki user cookiefonster Big Number Duel by Agustín Rayo Hayden's Big Numbers by wiki user HaydenTheGoogologist2009 Pointless Googolplex Stuffs and ExE ultimate googolism generator by wiki user DeepLineMadom AR Googol by wiki user ARsygo Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by Scott Aaronson Turing Machine Simulator by Anthony Morphett CompactStar's Googology by wiki user CompactStar Impossible Numbers by wiki user Antfarmerguys Subreddits r/googology r/Scholar Ordinals Ordinal Explorer by wiki user Rgetar An interactive diagram for ordinals up to \(\varepsilon_{\varepsilon_0}\) Non-wiki googology links in other languages 大数入门 for those who know Chinese. Beware though, the article contains tons of mistakes. Large Number in pixiv dictionary for those who know Japanese. Miscellany Googol Maps 2.0 (year - size) by wiki user Koteitan

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