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Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely.
explananation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2966:_Exam_Numbers
1 x ∞
Simplest way to take a shot at the biggest number without getting into some weird multiple multipliers of infinity.
My dad is a retired Math professor.
The laughter had around this started at Cosmology, then erupted at Game theory and he couldn’t breathe after the last one.
This is probably one of his most clever comics.
For the final answer, I guess Big Omega, unless you don’t count infinities in which case my answer is getting up and arguing with the professor because "the number of times I can recursively write TREE(TREE(TREE... is just as arbitrary as declaring a biggest theoretical number and assigning it a new symbol.
Of course it includes infinities, and when was the last time you saw a postgrad exam whose answers didn’t include an argument with the professor?
The set of real numbers between 0 & 1 is larger than any countable infinity.
The game theory one is easy. Put down 999,999,999,999 factorial. Then everyone got it wrong, and the curve will reflect that.
That’s why it’s always between 1 and 100. Never seen one without an upper and lower bound.
Only if it’s “10 more” in the sense that anything bigger than that is also accepted. If you need to hit 57, because the average is 47, then yeah, good luck.
2 is pretty big. Oh, or π! That’s probably the biggest number I’ve seen this month.
