No edit summary |
No edit summary Tag: Visual edit |
||
(6 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
'''Googology Wiki is an online encyclopedia and community dedicated to large numbers.''' |
'''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 '''[[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, |
+ | 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, 2021, Googology Wiki is now 13 years old and going strong! |
− | <small>([[Googology Wiki:Sister wikis| |
+ | <small>([[Googology Wiki:Sister wikis|Googology in other languages]]: [[:cs:|Česky]] {{*}} [[:de:|Deutsch]] {{*}} [[:es:|Español]] {{*}} [[:fr:|Français]] {{*}} [[:ja:|日本語]] {{*}} [[:nl:|Nederlands]] {{*}} [[:ru:|Русский]] {{*}} [[:w:c:ko.googology|한국어]] {{*}} [[:zh:|中文]]<br /> |
+ | </small> |
||
− | Talk to us on [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23googology Freenode IRC (##googology)]! (Or [[#chatbox-ctr|scroll down]].)</small> |
||
</div> |
</div> |
||
{{HeadingB|New to big numbers?}} |
{{HeadingB|New to big numbers?}} |
||
− | [[Googology]] is the mathematical study of large numbers, their properties |
+ | [[Googology]] is the mathematical study of large numbers and fast-growing functions, as well as their properties and nomenclature. If you're interested in the subject, but you don't know where to start, try reading about some basic functions and ideas: |
− | * |
+ | *[[Googology#History|Short essay]] on the foundations and history of the field |
− | * |
+ | *[[Googol]] and [[googolplex]] |
− | * |
+ | *[[Tetration]] |
* [[Arrow notation]] |
* [[Arrow notation]] |
||
− | * |
+ | *[[Graham's number]] |
− | * |
+ | *[[User blog:Sbiis Saibian/Introduction to Googology|Introduction to Googology]] blog post by Sbiis Saibian |
− | * |
+ | *[[List of googolisms]] |
− | * |
+ | *[[List of functions]] |
Also, be sure to check out the links below. |
Also, be sure to check out the links below. |
||
Line 28: | Line 28: | ||
{{HeadingB|Around the Wiki}} |
{{HeadingB|Around the Wiki}} |
||
− | * |
+ | *[[Project:About|About]] |
− | * |
+ | *[[Project:Policy|Policy]] |
− | * |
+ | *[[Googology_Wiki:Guideline|Guidelines for mainspace pages]] (related) |
+ | *[[Googology_Wiki:Discussion]] |
||
− | * [[Special:ListUsers|People]] |
||
− | * |
+ | *[[Special:ListUsers|People]] |
⚫ | |||
− | * [[Project:Discord|Discord]] |
||
− | * |
+ | *[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] {{*}} [[Special:Log|Logs]] |
⚫ | |||
⚫ | |||
⚫ | |||
{{HeadingB|Article Count Progress}} |
{{HeadingB|Article Count Progress}} |
||
Line 47: | Line 46: | ||
<!-- To add, modify, or remove quotes, go to Template:Rquote. --> |
<!-- To add, modify, or remove quotes, go to Template:Rquote. --> |
||
{{rquote}} |
{{rquote}} |
||
− | |||
− | </td><td style="vertical-align: top;"> |
||
{{HeadingA|Contributing}} |
{{HeadingA|Contributing}} |
||
Line 64: | Line 61: | ||
{{Project:Links}} |
{{Project:Links}} |
||
− | </td></tr></table> |
||
− | <div id="chatbox-ctr"></div> |
||
⚫ | |||
− | 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). |
||
⚫ | |||
__NOEDITSECTION__ <!-- This removes the section edit links --> |
__NOEDITSECTION__ <!-- This removes the section edit links --> |
||
---- |
---- |
||
− | [[de: |
+ | [[de:]] |
− | [[nl: |
+ | [[nl:]] |
− | [[ja: |
+ | [[ja:]] |
− | [[fr: |
+ | [[fr:]] |
− | [[zh: |
+ | [[zh:]] |
− | [[ru: |
+ | [[ru:]] |
− | [[cs: |
+ | [[cs:]] |
− | [[es: |
+ | [[es:]] |
[[Category:Browse]] |
[[Category:Browse]] |
Revision as of 12:54, 16 February 2022
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 Large Number Garden Number or binary-ogolchunk, why not help us out? We encourage you to edit! As of December 5, 2021, Googology Wiki is now 13 years old and going strong!
(Googology in other languages: Česky · Deutsch · Español · Français · 日本語 · Nederlands · Русский · 한국어 · 中文
New to big numbers?
Googology is the mathematical study of large numbers and fast-growing functions, as well as their properties and nomenclature. If you're interested in the subject, but you don't know where to start, try reading about some basic functions and ideas:
- Short essay on the foundations and history of the field
- Googol and googolplex
- Tetration
- Arrow notation
- Graham's number
- Introduction to Googology blog post by Sbiis Saibian
- List of googolisms
- List of functions
Also, be sure to check out the links below.
Around the Wiki
- About
- Policy
- Guidelines for mainspace pages (related)
- Googology_Wiki:Discussion
- People
- New pages · New images
- Recent changes · Logs
- Other wikis
Article Count Progress
We have reached 0% of our goal of 10100 articles!
Quote
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!
Links
This is a compilation of websites that may be of interest to large number enthusiasts.
- For beginners
- Large numbers increasing Douglas Shamlin Jr.'s video series about increasing numbers. It goes from zero to numbers described using Bird's array notation. Recommended for beginners.
- One to Infinity: A Guide to the Finite by Sbiis Saibian/(user), a guided tour of googology and number systems. Recommended for beginners.
- Large Numbers by Robert Munafo. Recommended for beginners.
- Sites
- Aarex Googology by Aarex Tiaokhiao/(user (inactive))
- Big Number Central by Jonathan Bowers
- Notable Properties of Specific Numbers by Robert Munafo
- Super Huge Numbers (main site) by Chris Bird
- Pointless Large Number Stuff by wiki user cookiefonster
- Big Number Duel by Agustín Rayo
- Hayden's Big Numbers by wiki user HaydenTheGoogologist2009
- Pointless Googolplex Stuffs and ExE ultimate googolism generator by wiki user DeepLineMadom
- AR Googol by wiki user ARsygo
- Who Can Name the Bigger Number? by Scott Aaronson
- Turing Machine Simulator by Anthony Morphett
- CompactStar's Googology by wiki user CompactStar
- Impossible Numbers by wiki user Antfarmerguys
- Subreddits
- Ordinals
- Ordinal Explorer by wiki user Rgetar
- An interactive diagram for ordinals up to \(\varepsilon_{\varepsilon_0}\)
- Non-wiki googology links in other languages
- 大数入门 for those who know Chinese. Beware though, the article contains tons of mistakes.
- Large Number in pixiv dictionary for those who know Japanese.
- Miscellany
- Googol Maps 2.0 (year - size) by wiki user Koteitan