do the questions they answer [if any] have any real world applications?
In: Mathematics
For the most part yes.
It gets quite beyond ELI5 level, but Grahams Number was constructed to answer a specific question. (Or at least place an upper bound on the answer to a question). The question involved coloring edges of cubes in various dimensions while avoiding certain patterns.
Graham’s number was an upper bound on the number of dimensions you could have before avoiding that pattern became impossible.
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