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Following on from the previous post, it seemed fitting to launch this blog's own stupidly big number. Introducing the Up Function, Up(n...

Once upon a time, there was a man called Graham , and he was wondering about cubes. By the time he'd finished wondering, he'd come u...

I went on a long, long journey to the end of the world. Camped at Wrynose Pass, Lake District, with my little car. Road to Ben Nevis from Fo...

I went to the highest unbroken waterfall in England. Higher than Wales' best, higher even than Ireland's . But all that is visible ...

Give a monkey a typewriter, and if you wait long enough it will type out the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This is the infinite mon...

A curious question here, for the logically-minded: boing boing . Good for the soul, I say. (I know I can't convince everyone of that......

I've been looking at some big numbers today, after my latest crude attempt to calculate the hypervolume of cosmic history in Planck unit...

I have discovered the driest substance in the known universe. Just one Oatibix, weighing less than 24g, will soak up seventeen gallons of li...

In a few billion years, our local, friendly sun will slowly redden and expand to lovingly engulf our planet in a glorious fiery final embrac...

Q1. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Q2. How many woodchucks would a woodchuck-chucker chuck if a wood...