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Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely.

explananation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2966:_Exam_Numbers

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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.

[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The set of real numbers between 0 & 1 is larger than any countable infinity.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Yass baby compare infinites to me harder

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