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What is the largest known number that can be written with only four letters?

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  Prof. Templeton said:

What is the largest known number that can be written with only four letters?

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NONE

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i dont know exactly cause im too lazy but

its something with

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roman numerals

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  crazypainter said:

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NONE

or Zero maybe. Nope. Not very large.

  rayman said:

i dont know exactly cause im too lazy but

its something with

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roman numerals

Maybe, maybe not. What's the largest you can make.

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MMMM

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M x MM (1000 * 2000) = 2000000

Edited September 1, 2008 by HoustonHokie

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  monE said:

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MMMM

  HoustonHokie said:

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M x MM (1000 * 2000) = 2000000

Both are pretty large numbers, but not the one I had in mind.

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I wasn't thinking about roman numerals at all.

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alot

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  summerbr3eze said:

alot

Nice. I thinking of a real number, however.

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  Prof. Templeton said:

What is the largest known number that can be written with only four letters?

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about using the english language?

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nineteen?

Edited September 1, 2008 by crazypainter

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  crazypainter said:

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eleven?

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about using the english language?

Yes. The English language. I'm thinking of a larger number.

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  Prof. Templeton said:

What is the largest known number that can be written with only four letters?

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']99^99

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Million

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  taliesin said:

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Million

Nope. And that's five.

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a googol?

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  rossbeemer said:

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a googol?

Came accross my mnid too, but following the Million example, this has only 3 words/alphabets. I think it have to have exactly 4 alphabets which may be repeated.

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In India there is a "Crore" which is equivalent to 10 million, i.e. 10^7

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  rossbeemer said:

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a googol?

This is a very good answer and a large number indeed. I am thinking of a large number that can be written with four letters. No more, no less. Kudos on this Huge number however.

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  Prof. Templeton said:

This is a very good answer and a large number indeed. I am thinking of a large number that can be written with four letters. No more, no less. Kudos on this Huge number however.

Looking off wikipedia how about

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Skews' number 10^10^10^34

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or

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nonillion = 10^30

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Nine?

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  Prof. Templeton said:

What is the largest known number that can be written with only four letters?

Have you heard of a million million.

In the same way :

googol googol googol googol googol googol googol .....................

j/k

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  Ben Law said:

Have you heard of a million million.

In the same way :

googol googol googol googol googol googol googol .....................

j/k

I can beat that: 1/0

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M^M^M^M

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FIFTY

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nvm thought it was 5 letters instead of 4

Edited September 1, 2008 by lemonymelon

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  crazypainter said:

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nineteen?

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about using the english language?

Would it be

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3500 = MMMD

it would be even greater if you were to "bar" each numeral as this indicates that it is multiplied by 1000.

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to clarify, do you mean the length of the word is four letters, or four letters of the alphabet are used in the word? I couldn't quite tell for certain from the previous posts.

also, by 'largest' i assume you mean highest value, not biggest length. if it was the second, we could just say something like pi or another irrational and be done.

Edited September 1, 2008 by aforsy