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11 questions linked to/from Shortest terminating program whose output size exceeds Graham's number
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Largest Number Printable
Your goal is to write a program that prints a number. The bigger the number, the more points you'll get. But be careful! Code length is both limited and heavily weighted in the scoring function. Your ...
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Largest number in ten bytes of code [closed]
Your goal is to print (to the standard output) the largest number possible, using just ten characters of code.
You may use any features of your language, except built-in exponentiation functions.
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Implement hyperexponentiation/tetration without the use of '^' [closed]
The Challenge
Implement tetration (aka Power Tower or Hyperexponentiation) with the least amount of characters.
The Conditions
Don't use the 'power' operator or its equivalents (such as ...
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Golf a number bigger than TREE(3)
The function TREE(k) gives the length of the longest sequence of trees T1, T2, ... where each vertex is labelled with one of k colours, the tree Ti has at most i vertices, and no tree is a minor of ...
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Lifetime of a Worm
Terms
A worm is any list of nonnegative integers, and its rightmost (i.e., last) element is called the head. If the head is not 0, the worm has an active segment consisting of the longest contiguous ...
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BigNum Bakeoff Reboot
Some of you may be familiar with the BigNum Bakeoff, which ended up quite interestingly. The goal can more or less be summarized as writing a C program who's output would be the largest, under some ...
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Golf a number bigger than Loader's number
As a follow up to Shortest terminating program whose output size exceeds Graham's number and Golf a number bigger than TREE(3), I present a new challenge.
Loader's number is a very large number, ...
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Output Graham's Number
Write a program that outputs all 64 layers of this representation of Graham's number from Wikipedia:
Your output must exactly match this ASCII version (in which ...
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Evaluate the nth hyperoperation
I do realise that this is a bit math-y, but - here goes.
In mathematics, the hyperoperation sequence is an infinite sequence of arithmetic operations (called hyperoperations) that starts with the ...
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Write a program whose nontermination is independent of Peano arithmetic
Challenge
Write a program P, taking no input, such that the proposition "the execution of P eventually terminates" is independent of Peano arithmetic.
Formal rules
(In case you are a mathematical ...
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Busy Brain Beaver reboot [duplicate]
Introduction
I found a really interesting puzzle it was called Busy Brain Beaver. But it has been 3 years since the latest activity and there are some things I didn't like about it. So I decided to ...