03-27-2006, 12:45 AM
Quote: a standard computer can't hold a number as big as 1 googolplex. But our minds can,
No computer holds a number. A bit field is not a number. A computer proccesses the bit fields and give output that signifies a number (visually, sonicly, temporally). You could easily, with a standard computer, design a system that manipulates huge numbers and outputs them in some significant fashion. There are even systems available for working with transcendental numbers (various magnitudes of infinity).