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<big><big>'''Welcome to GOOGOLOGY WIKI!'''</big></big>
 
   
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=='''What are we?'''==
 
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'''Googology Wiki is an online encyclopedia and community dedicated to large numbers.'''
We are a proud community of MAPs ('''M'''inorly '''A'''ttracted '''P'''eoples) who flaunt our love for children and love to introduce them to the wonders of a platonic (but not always!) relationship with grown adults.
 
   
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Welcome to the Internet's most comprehensive database of large numbers and fast-growing functions. We have made '''[[Special:Allpages|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]]''' articles since December 5, 2008. If you're fascinated by numbers like {{random number}} or {{random number|bla}}, why not help us out? We encourage you to edit! As of December 5, 2019, Googology Wiki is now 11 years old and going strong!
=='''Our invitation'''==
 
We welcome you to enjoy the judgement free zone that is our community, basking in the various young visitors that frequent this site. I, Flackary Andersonne have been the spokesperson and ardent supporter of MAP pride since day one, and invite all similarly inclined individuals to enjoy our safe space. We believe in no contact, so as long as you don't molest anyone you should be good.
 
   
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<small>([[Googology Wiki:Sister wikis|Other languages]]: [[w:c:nl.grote-getallen|Nederlands]] {{*}} [[w:c:de.googologie|Deutsch]] {{*}} [[w:c:ja.googology|日本語]] {{*}} [[w:c:fr.googology|Français]] {{*}} [[w:c:zh.googology|中文]] {{*}} [[w:c:pl.googologia|Polski]] {{*}} [[w:c:ru.googology|Русский]] {{*}} [[:cs:Googologie_Wiki|Česky]] {{*}} [[:ms:|Bahasa Melayu]] {{*}} [[:w:c:es.googologia|Español]] {{*}} [[:w:c:ko.googology|한국어]])<br />
==Top MAPs==
 
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Talk to us on [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23googology Freenode IRC (##googology)]! (Or [[#chatbox-ctr|scroll down]].)</small>
*[[User:Username5243|Username5243]] (currently in a polyamorous relationship with three 11-year olds)
 
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*[[User:Moooosey|Moooosey]] (not into humans, he only likes prepubescent mooses, so he's safe to leave around your children folks)
 
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{{HeadingB|New to big numbers?}}
   
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[[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:
==By the way==
 
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Please join DrCocktor's Discord server. It's hella rad, dude. :-)
 
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* [[Googology#History|Short essay]] on the foundations and history of the field
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* [[Googol]] and [[googolplex]]
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* [[Tetration]]
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* [[Arrow notation]]
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* [[Graham's number]]
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* [[User blog:Sbiis Saibian/Introduction to Googology|Introduction to Googology]] blog post by Sbiis Saibian
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* [[List of googolisms]]
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* [[List of functions]]
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Also, be sure to check out the links below.
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{{HeadingB|Around the Wiki}}
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* [[Project:About|About]]
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* [[Project:Policy|Policy]]
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* [[Special:ListUsers|People]]
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* [[Project:IRC|IRC]]
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* [[Project:Discord|Discord]]
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* [[Special:NewPages|New pages]] {{*}} [[Special:NewImages|New images]]
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* [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] {{*}} [[Special:Log|Logs]]
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* [[w:Wikia|Other wikis]]
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{{HeadingA|Contributing}}
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Got an idea or a creation to share? [[Special:SignUp|Sign up for Wikia]] if you haven't already, and [[Special:CreateBlogPage|create a blog post]].
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Found googology from a third-party source that isn't in the encyclopedia yet? [[Special:CreatePage|Create a new article]].
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'''[[Project:GoogolNews|More news...]]'''
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This isn't the only way to access the IRC channel, though! You should get yourself a proper client like [http://www.mirc.com/ mIRC] (Windows only) or [http://quassel-irc.org/ Quassel] (cross-platform).
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Revision as of 01:33, 10 July 2020


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

Welcome to the Internet's most comprehensive database of large numbers and fast-growing functions. We have made 18,836 articles since December 5, 2008. If you're fascinated by numbers like hapaxillion or colossol, why not help us out? We encourage you to edit! As of December 5, 2019, Googology Wiki is now 11 years old and going strong!

(Other languages: Nederlands · Deutsch · 日本語 · Français · 中文 · Polski · Русский · Česky · Bahasa Melayu · Español · 한국어)
Talk to us on Freenode IRC (##googology)! (Or scroll down.)


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:

Also, be sure to check out the links below.

Around the Wiki

Article Count Progress

We have reached 0% of our goal of 10100 articles!

Quote

Almost all positive integers are very, very, very large.
  —Frivolous Theorem[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.

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
Sites
Subreddits
Ordinals
Non-wiki googology links in other languages
Miscellany


This isn't the only way to access the IRC channel, though! You should get yourself a proper client like mIRC (Windows only) or Quassel (cross-platform).