Cambridge, MA - Theoretical mathematicians near Harvard have discovered a new candidate for the world's biggest number.
Mathematician Geraldine Grogan, shown here demonstrating a profound grasp of improbably big numbers while the intricacies of life's greatest mystery, the inner workings of the human heart, escape her |
"It's a really, really big number," Geraldine Grogan, Chief of Math at the Dunkin' Institute for the Study of Numbers, explained. "Think of the biggest number you know. Got it? This one is bigger. A lot bigger."
Grogan, a mathematician who fell in love with big numbers as a young child when she first learned about 11, is used to skepticism when it comes communicating the science of big numbers to the public. "I wish I had a nickel for every time someone asked me why I don't just add 1 to get a new biggest number. It's just not that simple."
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