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shhsshsyesterday at 8:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

`9↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑9` seems like a reasonable guess (barring encoding cheats/trickery like @masfuerte commented!)

Edit: I've misread the above comment and my number is is 64 bytes (significantly more than 64 bits. The largest 64 bit number through my approach would be `9↑↑↑↑↑↑9`, which is significantly smaller.


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lisperyesterday at 9:19 PM

I can do you one better and specify that the normal base-2 integer represented by the bits is the number of up-arrows. But as /u/tromp has already pointed out, that is not very interesting.

tuhgdetzhhyesterday at 10:37 PM

Is there any intuition on how big this number is?

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