{"id":808,"date":"2024-12-11T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T02:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/?p=808"},"modified":"2025-04-28T00:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:35:02","slug":"christmas-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2024\/12\/11\/christmas-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Number"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>After reading and watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\">youtube<\/a> videos about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Large_numbers\">large numbers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graham's_number\">Graham&#8217;s number<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation\">up arrow notation<\/a> (power towers), I have (hopefully) defined, with what I am going to call, the &#8220;Christmas Number&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Hopefully my understanding is correct and my html\/<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LaTeX\">LaTeX<\/a> markup is fine.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with level 1, or &#8220;Christmas 1 (C1)&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">C1 = 25 \u2191<sup>(<\/sup><sup>25<sup>12<\/sup><\/sup><sup>) <\/sup>12<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><br \/>C2 = 25 \u2191<sup>(C1)<\/sup> 12<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><br \/>C3 = 25 \u2191<sup>(C2)<\/sup> 12<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><br \/>C25<sup>12<\/sup> = 25 \u2191<sup>((C25<sup>12<\/sup>)-1)<\/sup> 12<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">M<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">e<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">r<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">r<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">y<\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">h<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">r<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">i<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">s<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">t<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">m<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">a<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">s<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading and watching youtube videos about large numbers, Graham&#8217;s number, up arrow notation (power towers), I have (hopefully) defined, with what I am going to call, the &#8220;Christmas Number&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 &nbsp; 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