{"id":64,"date":"2006-03-14T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-03-14T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T07:59:00","slug":"%c2%bfquien-puede-nombrar-el-mayor-numero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfQui\u00e9n puede nombrar el mayor n\u00famero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Alonso has kindly translated my essay &#8220;Who Can Name The Bigger Number?&#8221; into Spanish.  You can read his translation <a href=\"http:\/\/es.geocities.com\/soidsenatas\/articulos\/31mnum.pdf\">here<\/a>, or my original English version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/writings\/bignumbers.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I wrote this piece seven years ago, as an undergraduate at Cornell, I still get more mail about it than about anything else I&#8217;ve written.  Which depresses me, because I know I couldn&#8217;t write it today.  I&#8217;d be too embarrassed to trot out the Ackermann and Busy Beaver numbers as if they were the awesomest things ever.  This is standard, decades-old material!  Doesn&#8217;t everyone know it by now?<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t, of course.  But the price I paid for learning enough to do science is that I can no longer work up childlike wonder over, say, humankind&#8217;s inability to pin down BB(7).  The things that are new to me are too hard to explain to a popular audience, and the things that are easy to explain are no longer new to me.  How I long for the power to return, at will, to my intellectual adolescence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Alonso has kindly translated my essay &#8220;Who Can Name The Bigger Number?&#8221; into Spanish. You can read his translation here, or my original English version here. Even though I wrote this piece seven years ago, as an undergraduate at Cornell, I still get more mail about it than about anything else I&#8217;ve written. Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}