I get distracted way too easily sometimes.

[kane_magus]

I saw the following post on my FB feed:

"Alright folks!!! i cn ndrstnd wrtng like diz for txt, but if u rite like diz when u have a complt keyboard n front of u, equipped with pnctuatn mrks n a shft key, plz, go back to typing clss!!!! u can pt 50 xclamatn pnts n a sentence, but u cn't prs da shift key once?????????? srsly wtc? /rant"

I decided that I liked this, and thus I would "Like" it. However, I didn't feel that this would sufficiently express the degree to which I actually liked it. I started to just say something really trite, like "I'd 'Like' that a million times if I could." or some such. But even that wouldn't have truly conveyed the appropriate weight. So I left the following comment:

"Too bad you can't 'Like' something more than once on Facebook. I would call the Ackermann function with Graham's number and the result of that would be the number of times I would 'Like' this if I could.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
http://www.xkcd.com/207/"

And followed up with:

"Or maybe something involving the Clarkkkkson.

http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/01/11/the-clarkkkkson-vs-the-xkcd-number/"

(EDIT) Defining the Clarkkkkson, since the original site is 404'd now. (/EDIT)

and

"ck(A(g_64, g_64), A(g_64, g_64), A(g_64, g_64), A(g_64, g_64))

Yeah, that sounds about right."

And it has all gone downhill from there.

So I think, as of this post, the number of times I would "Like" that FB posting would be the following, which makes use of the Up function as well as the aforementioned Clarkkkkson function and the xkcd number:

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U_crazy = Up^{(ck(A(g₆₄, g₆₄), A(g₆₄, g₆₄),A(g₆₄, g₆₄),A(g₆₄, g₆₄)))} (ck(A(g₆₄, g₆₄), A(g₆₄, g₆₄),A(g₆₄, g₆₄),A(g₆₄, g₆₄)))

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Or, heck, why not:

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U_super-crazy = Up^(U_crazy)(U_crazy)

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And so on and so forth.

I still don't think even that number is big enough, and just saying "infinity" seems like an unworthy cop-out.

Teal Deer version: My point, quite simply, is that I kind of don't like it when people type like that. For any reason. I don't even make the exception for texting. ¬_¬

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[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

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I would have just referenced Avogadro's number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro%27s_number) and called it a day.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, it was more that I just got distracted by the looking up of various large numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_numbers) in and of itself, hence the subject line.