What is the practical purpose of incomprehensibly large numbers such as Aleph?
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Love the replies so far. Just wanted to add one thing.
There is a lot of use to extremely large numbers, one application being encryption. Extremely large prime numbers are used to encrypt data because they are exceptionally hard to calculate and provide a great way to easily encrypt data quickly and securely.
Then there are *absurdly large* numbers. I’m talking about numbers with billions of digits. These serve almost no practical value to us. Occasionally we will discover a number with a cool property, but beyond that the number exists as a footnote on the OEIS (Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences).
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