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Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3137/
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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If a number is long enough human won't be able to perceive it all at once, so in fact there are only finite number of cases we need to check.
Human will run out of memory when reading the number, in fact.