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Yesterday, in a slightly drunken mad maths conversation which occasionally takes place in the living room of our West Ealing house, conversation turned to the largest number ever used in a mathematical proof. This number is Graham’s Number and is so stageringly vast it takes a good few minutes to realise exactly how big it is. It has been calculated that if you convert all of the matter in the universe to ink, there isn’t enough ink to write this number down in standard decimal notation. I’m not going to bore you with the definition, or the mathematical significance of Graham’s number. I, instead, have something much more boring to blog about!

I searched MathWorld for “Grahams Number” (in a moment of gramatical oversight) and to my delight it returned no results and instead provided a link for me to search for
Graham’s Number. I am extremely pleased that even internationally acclaimed mathematic institutions are promoting the use of good grammar.