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  • @gdsfish3214
    @gdsfish3214 6 років тому +6297

    Don't you hate when you're trying to prove how big TREE(3) is with finite arithmetic, but then the universe resets itself.

    • @ruben307
      @ruben307 6 років тому +126

      reminds me of Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. The answer is easy yes it is finite the proof is very long.

    • @0menge
      @0menge 6 років тому +41

      I totally hate it!

    • @guillaumelagueyte1019
      @guillaumelagueyte1019 6 років тому +142

      I was so close last time I tried. Oh well, maybe this time I'll have better luck

    • @mrJety89
      @mrJety89 6 років тому +155

      That happened to me Tree(3) times already.

    • @DaniErik
      @DaniErik 6 років тому +150

      "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."

  • @RBuckminsterFuller
    @RBuckminsterFuller 6 років тому +4684

    "This IQ test stumps most mathematicians! Finish the sequence 1, 3, ..."

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 6 років тому +197

      I was just thinking about trolling my friends with 1,3...

    • @whatisthis2809
      @whatisthis2809 6 років тому +122

      RBuckminsterFuller many answer 5 or 9 or 11 or 18 or 29 or 78 or 722 or even asceding so >3

    • @fossilfighters101
      @fossilfighters101 6 років тому +9

      +

    • @ghyrt1
      @ghyrt1 6 років тому +150

      According to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, 4 is an acceptable answer

    • @pieffe8
      @pieffe8 6 років тому +25

      In the sequence is infinite you can't finish it...

  • @whyit487
    @whyit487 4 роки тому +2025

    The class: Tree(1)
    The homework: Tree(2)
    The exam: Tree(3)

    • @Aerialyn
      @Aerialyn 3 роки тому +124

      The test: tree(3)
      The finals: tree(tree (3))

    • @playmaker4700
      @playmaker4700 3 роки тому +16

      TREE(Infinity)

    • @keafoleafo8368
      @keafoleafo8368 3 роки тому +43

      @@playmaker4700 Isn't that just infinity anyway?

    • @tinybro5630
      @tinybro5630 3 роки тому +18

      The Job Interview: Tree(Tree(Tree...(3)))))))))...

    • @tlep2979
      @tlep2979 3 роки тому +11

      @@keafoleafo8368 yes, any size of infinity (say omega) put into TREE should return infinity. I don't know if it would return the same size of infinity or not though

  • @jongalonja9233
    @jongalonja9233 4 роки тому +1606

    Well now I want to know if TREE(3) is prime

    • @priyansh1210
      @priyansh1210 4 роки тому +289

      You can assume it's prime for now since it doesn't have any known non trivial divisors :P

    • @HerrKeuner1948
      @HerrKeuner1948 4 роки тому +191

      @@priyansh1210 That's a dangerous assumption ;)

    • @nothisispatrick6832
      @nothisispatrick6832 4 роки тому +42

      wonder if its possible to calculate that probability

    • @number_8903
      @number_8903 3 роки тому +163

      First try to prove that tree(3) is odd

    • @chebichevinovichskic
      @chebichevinovichskic 3 роки тому +42

      The guy said the closest you can get to knowing anything abt the number is the number of signs needed to prove it s finite...

  • @heliocentric1756
    @heliocentric1756 6 років тому +3645

    "I've discovered a remarkable proof of Tree(3) theorem but the universe is too small to contain it"

    • @fossilfighters101
      @fossilfighters101 6 років тому +53

      +

    • @fibbooo1123
      @fibbooo1123 6 років тому +40

      +

    • @romajimamulo
      @romajimamulo 6 років тому +80

      fossilfighters101 "also my brain is too small to contain it"

    • @me_too_thanks5062
      @me_too_thanks5062 6 років тому +114

      What a shame we don't live in a quality universe that could fit tree(3)

    • @ashkara8652
      @ashkara8652 6 років тому +60

      Only acceptable place to actually use that excuse

  • @alanturingtesla
    @alanturingtesla 6 років тому +1457

    In base TREE(3) it is 10.

    • @zoranhacker
      @zoranhacker 6 років тому +6

      A odgovor na prvo pitanje?

    • @subhransu75
      @subhransu75 6 років тому +318

      And in binary the first digit is 1.

    • @vp_arth
      @vp_arth 6 років тому +18

      Can you give us their alphabet here?

    • @joonatanlinkola9059
      @joonatanlinkola9059 6 років тому +113

      What a useful base that is

    • @DuskKaiser
      @DuskKaiser 6 років тому +1

      Subhransu Mohapatra not necessarily

  • @stevekim9662
    @stevekim9662 4 роки тому +711

    What they teach you in class: Tree(3)
    What they ask you in the exam: Tree(Tree3)

    • @SystemOfATool
      @SystemOfATool 4 роки тому +35

      What they teach you in class: 1 & 3
      What they ask you in the exam: Tree3

    • @sirdonki8085
      @sirdonki8085 4 роки тому

      😨😨😱😱😭😭😭😭

    • @MrTheKamir
      @MrTheKamir 4 роки тому +16

      My brain just collapsed Tree(3) times

    • @barsozuguler4744
      @barsozuguler4744 4 роки тому +2

      Im scared this like 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @pbj4184
      @pbj4184 3 роки тому +1

      @@SystemOfATool
      Class: 33
      Exam: Tree(3)

  • @NoriMori1992
    @NoriMori1992 4 роки тому +1096

    "The universe will eventually reset itself."
    "The universe will eventually reset itself."

    • @myownmeadow1320
      @myownmeadow1320 4 роки тому +17

      Once comes around what do you feel, I love Jack woke up press and seal me big pain to Pono.
      (speech to text, Not what I meant but too funny to not post)

    • @bigbluetrex__8475
      @bigbluetrex__8475 4 роки тому +21

      "The universe will eventually reset itself assuming that that will happen forever and that the universe is a perpetual machine, otherwise eventually everything will end forever and space time will cease to exist."
      What a happy thought to think about while you're alone in the house!

    • @mathmachine4266
      @mathmachine4266 4 роки тому +7

      Looks like we had less time than we thought

    • @HimanXK
      @HimanXK 4 роки тому +18

      Repetition legitimizes
      Repetition legitimizes

    • @uncoolloser6233
      @uncoolloser6233 3 роки тому +4

      11 11 It’s impossible to prove or disprove that it will. We can only make more and more assumptions.
      Edit: or we can just accept one theory, which is fine, as none of us will ever live long enough to find out the validity of said theory.

  • @kcthewanderer
    @kcthewanderer 6 років тому +2340

    We're gonna need a bigger universe.

    • @user-ft4pb5vb3e
      @user-ft4pb5vb3e 6 років тому +38

      If you were to increase the universe's size by a googolplex factorial ^^^^^ a googolplex factorial-fold, then tried to fit TREE(3) cubic Planck lengths in there...you couldn't do it.

    • @ongbonga9025
      @ongbonga9025 6 років тому +18

      I reckon we'll need exactly a Graham's Number of universes to write down Tree (3), assuming one digit per Planck unit. Call it intuition.

    • @MikeRosoftJH
      @MikeRosoftJH 6 років тому +11

      No, you aren't anywhere close.

    • @CaseyShontz
      @CaseyShontz 5 років тому +15

      kcthewanderer I’ll go to Costco and buy one, be back in tree(3) minutes

    • @justsayapple1381
      @justsayapple1381 5 років тому +3

      jawad mansoor I’ll have to remember to order one next time the universe resets

  • @PallyNut
    @PallyNut 6 років тому +2000

    If numberphile has Pi as their picture.. Numberphile2 should have Tau as their picture.

    • @CaseyShontz
      @CaseyShontz 5 років тому +28

      PallyNut you right, you right

    • @alephnull4044
      @alephnull4044 5 років тому +8

      Yes!!

    • @arvasukulkarni3686
      @arvasukulkarni3686 5 років тому +14

      This needs more likes

    • @leondost3575
      @leondost3575 4 роки тому +2

      tau rules, change my mind!
      also, this needs way more likes :)

    • @qiki_info
      @qiki_info 4 роки тому +20

      NumberphileTREE(3) for SERIOUS insiders.

  • @massimodelbianco442
    @massimodelbianco442 4 роки тому +823

    And still, TREE(3) Is closer to 0 than infinity.

    • @caduaraujo331
      @caduaraujo331 4 роки тому +55

      so is every cardinal

    • @Bogdanko93
      @Bogdanko93 4 роки тому +87

      @@SoloLevellor except my ego

    • @siddhantnagrath8144
      @siddhantnagrath8144 4 роки тому +3

      Massimo Del Bianco depends on which infinity

    • @siddhantnagrath8144
      @siddhantnagrath8144 4 роки тому +2

      It’s faster than a function of Epsilon sub script zero

    • @Shadowwolf-1337
      @Shadowwolf-1337 4 роки тому +5

      Infinity divided by 3 would be closer to zero than infinity. Well, it would also be infinity. Wait, what?!

  • @darkshoalproductions
    @darkshoalproductions 5 років тому +358

    Well, at least we know that the entire universe is not just a simulation being run to calculate TREE(3) then.

    • @tb-cg6vd
      @tb-cg6vd 4 роки тому +27

      Brilliant. My sense of free will is now secure!

    • @SledgerFromTDS.
      @SledgerFromTDS. 2 роки тому +1

      @@tb-cg6vd Brilliant to See your Comment, But there is another Video here

    • @SledgerFromTDS.
      @SledgerFromTDS. 2 роки тому

      Brome to See your Comment, But there is another Video here

    • @albert6157
      @albert6157 Рік тому

      @@tb-cg6vd keep in mind, its a "sense" of free will. Not free will itself ;)

    • @izayus11
      @izayus11 Рік тому +1

      Actually , it is. We are just the bootloader.

  • @dkranda
    @dkranda 6 років тому +341

    But is it prime?

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 6 років тому +1

      same question

    • @guillaumelagueyte1019
      @guillaumelagueyte1019 6 років тому +18

      Maybe there's a way to prove whether it's odd or even.

    • @connorking984
      @connorking984 6 років тому +18

      Dan Kranda almost definitely not, every time you go up and find a prime while trying to divide to see if it's prime, you add that number to you're division pool. Since tree(3) is sooo big you have so.... Many primes to divide by its almost definitely not prime. plus half of all numbers are instantly taken out by dividing by two.

    • @sage5296
      @sage5296 6 років тому +35

      Well the frequency of primes is like 1/ln(x) so I'd give it a 1/ln(TREE(3)) chance of being prime... aka 0

    • @michaeljupille1076
      @michaeljupille1076 6 років тому +21

      Well TREE(1) and TREE(2) are prime so it isn't unthinkable, but I'm gonna go out on a LIMB and say that it would be tricky to definitively prove either way
      edit:
      before I get called out, I totally forgot 1 isn't prime, but I couldn't resist the pun

  • @aza3262
    @aza3262 6 років тому +573

    Don't you hate it when you're doing proof for your maths homework and the universe just resets itself....

  • @avi8aviate
    @avi8aviate 5 років тому +160

    That TREE(3) will be great for getting LOG(3)s!

    • @harryw4802
      @harryw4802 3 роки тому +2

      bruh lol

    • @harryw4802
      @harryw4802 3 роки тому +3

      also log(3) ¬ 0.477121

    • @moodleblitz
      @moodleblitz 3 роки тому +3

      clever

    • @georgesmyrnis1742
      @georgesmyrnis1742 3 місяці тому +1

      Lol. The question is how many LOG(3)s does a TREE(3) give? You will need multiple axes to figure that one out.

    • @avi8aviate
      @avi8aviate 3 місяці тому +1

      @@georgesmyrnis1742 Likely millions of axes, if not even more than that.

  • @RobertSzasz
    @RobertSzasz 5 років тому +125

    1,3, Visible universe collapses into a singularity

  • @claudiuacsinte4757
    @claudiuacsinte4757 6 років тому +402

    "Exponantiation on steroids"

    • @Anaklusmos42
      @Anaklusmos42 6 років тому +2

      scalpian your thing, to the power of TREE(TREE(TREE(3)))

    • @andymcl92
      @andymcl92 6 років тому +11

      ExponenTREEation!

    • @y__h
      @y__h 6 років тому +1

      Symbol juggling on meths.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 6 років тому

      Claudio Acsinte Exponentiation*

  • @AJ-tr4jx
    @AJ-tr4jx 6 років тому +862

    the universe will eventually reset itself, the universe will eventually reset itself.
    hah! well played

    • @BoWeava
      @BoWeava 6 років тому +8

      A J
      Lol I scrolled down hoping someone else saw that haha

    • @carbrickscity
      @carbrickscity 6 років тому +6

      BoWeava They did the same on the poincare recurrence time vid

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie 6 років тому

      yes due to there only being a finite amount of states that the universe can be in. Even if some of the states are infinitely big.

    • @BoWeava
      @BoWeava 6 років тому

      CarBricksCity niiice, haven't seen that one

    • @Bodyknock
      @Bodyknock 6 років тому +3

      The thing I don’t quite get about poincare recurrence for the universe is that the recurrence theorem requires a sequence of sets that is bounded. For instance, gas molecules in a closed box is a bounded system and a sequence of states of those molecules within that box will repeat themselves according to the theorem. But the universe is expanded and therefore the system is unbounded so I’m not quite clear on why the Poincare recurrence theorem applies. To take the gas in a box analogy further, if the box is instead an inflating balloon and the balloon can inflate indefinitely then there is no guarantee the molecules will repeat states because they have paths available which can expand outward with their boundary. Similarly the particles in the universe can expand with the universe so it seems like there would be no guarantee their states would repeat (since part of their states includes their relative positions in an expanding spacetime.)
      I’m not saying the video is wrong, I’m just confused how this is resolved for an expanding boundary.

  • @L0j1k
    @L0j1k 4 роки тому +59

    "So it's never been done before?"
    "Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa there guy. Just hold your horses. The question is CAN it be done?"
    LOL

  • @gilbertoortega3274
    @gilbertoortega3274 4 роки тому +124

    When he wrote Tree (Tree(3)) I got anxious because I thought the universe was going to crash.

  • @felixp535
    @felixp535 6 років тому +1436

    You know what's even crazier?
    TREE(3)^0 = 1

    • @criskity
      @criskity 6 років тому +364

      And 1/TREE(3) is really small.

    • @djhokage1
      @djhokage1 6 років тому +198

      Yeaaa, the real deal still is Zero, the number which demolishes everything else.

    • @jackreacher6240
      @jackreacher6240 6 років тому +119

      well ..... -2 is smaller.

    • @petritdauti6258
      @petritdauti6258 6 років тому +104

      Félix Pinchon
      TREE( TREE(TREE(TREE(3))) )^0=1 too
      Wtf universe

    • @skeletonrowdie1768
      @skeletonrowdie1768 5 років тому +70

      ah so the zeroth root of 1 is TREE(3)! We found the solution boys!

  • @emilioherrera6345
    @emilioherrera6345 6 років тому +876

    Totally dissapointed, this video should’ve been called “(extra foliage)”

  • @zemc77
    @zemc77 6 років тому +22

    "Exponentiation on steroids" Best description of Arrow notation I ever heard.

  • @jimgeary
    @jimgeary 5 років тому +25

    When he started nesting the Tree()’s, my nethers clenched fearing the universe might rend.

  • @phampton6781
    @phampton6781 6 років тому +55

    "The universe is too small to contain it." I'll use this excuse next time I haven't done a due essay.

  • @VigoHornblower
    @VigoHornblower 6 років тому +521

    What if you filled the universe with mathematicians the size of a plank length and then they split up the work?

    • @mattsmith457
      @mattsmith457 6 років тому +160

      Probably my favorite part about 2017 was this comment because I just imagine a world of tiny scientists talking about numbers perpetually in the multiverse somewhere and that keeps me optimistic about life. I also would love to see what would happen if someone figured it out and the news spread across the trillions of tiny scientists like a wave of celebration as the universe rejoiced in finding the answer. Would it cease to exist since it's purpose would be fulfilled? Would the scientists find another problem to work on? Perhaps they would colonize different universes or even just their own ones and delegate the lesser scientists to act as the land masses. Neat.

    • @jaysephisdeadpool8813
      @jaysephisdeadpool8813 5 років тому +38

      yeah they not gonna get nowhere

    • @axelpeneau2288
      @axelpeneau2288 4 роки тому +5

      Won't work either

    • @altrag
      @altrag 4 роки тому +24

      @@axelpeneau2288 Yep.. Anything we can (reasonably) write as x*10^y notation won't even begin to tickle the things that require the double up-arrow notation, no matter how big y gets.

    • @rodwayworkor9202
      @rodwayworkor9202 4 роки тому +2

      Where would they add the symbol?

  • @huwman
    @huwman Рік тому +55

    I came across TREE (3) yesterday when I was watching an online documentary and it both blew my mind and excited me immensely. I'm not a mathematician, I'm a musician, but this is just so awesome. I love this guy's brains and enthusiasm. Anyway, we were looking for a name for our new band - so calling it TREE (3). I hope no-one else has that name, but I love this so much. Thanks! :)

    • @masonicmoth
      @masonicmoth Рік тому +4

      I would name a band 6EQUJ5 and pronounce it "The WOW Signal" lol

    • @IsaacHarvison-mt5xt
      @IsaacHarvison-mt5xt 8 місяців тому +1

      I'm smart guy math what's the point I understand to try understand Googleplex the numbers so unimaginable at its but so what's the point Graham the numbers so unimaginable what's the poin going beyond t 😂😂

    • @bizw
      @bizw 6 місяців тому

      ​@@IsaacHarvison-mt5xtwhat

  • @tyleralmquist7606
    @tyleralmquist7606 4 роки тому +132

    Spongebob: you know what’s -bigger- than tree(3)?
    Patrick: what?
    Spongebob: Tree(4)

    • @thunderstrom878
      @thunderstrom878 2 роки тому +3

      And you know what function is faster and larger than TREE ? Subcubic Graph and Busy Beaver 😂

  • @balazslovenberg
    @balazslovenberg 6 років тому +219

    Surely TREE(n) grows faster than LOG(n)

    • @romajimamulo
      @romajimamulo 6 років тому +6

      Balazs Lovenberg it sure does

    • @ImMataza
      @ImMataza 6 років тому +6

      Man that's an amazing comment , I wish I thought of it :)

    • @chimkelvin5705
      @chimkelvin5705 6 років тому +23

      You should also consider ROOT(n), because it grows slower than TREE(n) too.

    • @GlobalWarmingSkeptic
      @GlobalWarmingSkeptic 6 років тому +2

      Hard to tell but yes I think if we examine the growth the TREE function just edges it out.

    • @suyashshandilya9891
      @suyashshandilya9891 5 років тому +4

      I once heard of an infinite divergent sequence but later it got summed up to -1/12. You never know man. You. Never. Know...…...

  • @Yebjic
    @Yebjic 6 років тому +744

    Well, TREE(3) is clearly smaller than the sum of all natural numbers, therefore, an the upper bound of TREE(3) is -1/12

    • @migfrarummet1907
      @migfrarummet1907 6 років тому +45

      bivtyfrcygvubugwerdcfuvgibjhvibobhjhb!
      I can't take this!

    • @petritdauti6258
      @petritdauti6258 6 років тому +9

      Yebjic
      Yeah thats something i dont get about infinity too

    • @jannegrey593
      @jannegrey593 5 років тому +37

      Only in Riemann Zeta function. Watch Mathologer video for full explanation. The one done in response to Numberphile video on -1/12.

    • @maxhaibara8828
      @maxhaibara8828 5 років тому +72

      We do have the upper bound for TREE(3)
      It is clearly less than TREE(3)+1

    • @whatno5090
      @whatno5090 5 років тому +16

      @@vishalarya93 yes, welcome to the joke

  • @Anklejbiter
    @Anklejbiter 5 років тому +114

    Oh, the universe reset itself again.
    Man, I hate it when that happens.

    • @aasyjepale5210
      @aasyjepale5210 4 роки тому +1

      no need to repeat, we can see itno need to repeat, we can see it

    • @Anklejbiter
      @Anklejbiter 4 роки тому

      @@aasyjepale5210 haha, haha.

  • @astroash
    @astroash 4 місяці тому +1

    It is a tradition for me to come back to Graham's number and TREE(3) every once couple of years.

  • @Skippy3rd
    @Skippy3rd 6 років тому +637

    Is TREE(3) closer to TREE(2) or TREE(4)? Do we know anything about the growth characteristics of the TREE() function?

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 6 років тому +33

      +

    • @HopUpOutDaBed
      @HopUpOutDaBed 6 років тому +472

      TREE(n) is always going to be closer to TREE(n-1) than TREE(n+1) in terms of absolute size. considering TREE(4) is just TREE(3) + an extra seed , you could just write out TREE(3) and then repeat entire structures only changing the color of one seed, effectively nearly doubling the size. And that's just changing the color of the seeds using 3-seed structures already constructed, not counting all the entirely new trees you could make using all 4-seeds

    • @norielsylvire4097
      @norielsylvire4097 6 років тому +145

      Scot Brown TREE (3) is way closer to -TREE (3) than to TREE (4)

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 6 років тому +57

      HopUpOutDaBed Why nearly doubling? I think, without consider the 4-colour trees, you'd already get 4(TREE(3)). Using RGBW, you could do a TREE(3) with RGB, RGW, RBW, and GBW each.

    • @Nixitur
      @Nixitur 6 років тому +44

      +HopUpOutDaBed - I like the way you think, that's a very elegant proof!

  • @glendrake9268
    @glendrake9268 6 років тому +87

    It gives me a new appreciation of infinity.

    • @qiki_info
      @qiki_info 4 роки тому +6

      But you're still not even close. lol

  • @canatronYT
    @canatronYT 6 років тому +13

    They used the same editing joke about the poincare repeat conjecture twice!
    They used the same editing joke about the poincare repeat conjecture twice!

  • @64lundyco
    @64lundyco 5 років тому +16

    Love the universe resetting itself editing joke

  • @batbawls
    @batbawls 6 років тому +124

    This should've been included in the original video!

    • @numberphile2
      @numberphile2  6 років тому +51

      I know a true believer like you would watch, but if you post a 19-minute video to UA-cam you may as well hang a big sign on it saying "DON'T WATCH THIS"
      Better to post a video on the essentials, then a second video for people who want to go deep?

    • @N0Xa880iUL
      @N0Xa880iUL 6 років тому +5

      Numberphile2 why not a 3rd? Or maybe 4th! I surely won't mind :)

    • @franklinruan3807
      @franklinruan3807 6 років тому +20

      Numberphile tree (3)

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 6 років тому +4

      You could have at least posted the pre-emptive TREE(TREE(3))

    • @Tahgtahv
      @Tahgtahv 6 років тому +1

      Thanks for mentioning the bell. Was wondering why I wasn't being notified. That said, what's the point of a subscription if not to notify you of new videos?

  • @somethingsinlife5600
    @somethingsinlife5600 6 років тому +79

    And This is why mathematicians have more fun :)
    They're just not bounded by the physical reality :)

  • @ineedtoeatcake
    @ineedtoeatcake 4 роки тому +44

    I love how happy he was at the end describing his joy over this type of math.

  • @swagswag6286
    @swagswag6286 4 роки тому +37

    Thanks to this channel I have fallen in love with math and I am really considering studying maths!

  • @fireeye1386
    @fireeye1386 6 років тому +56

    I have discovered a truly remarkable proof that tree(3) is finite, which this universe is too small to contain...

    • @Craccpot
      @Craccpot 6 років тому +4

      fire eye exact words from Fermat if he is still alive today

    • @theviniso
      @theviniso 6 років тому

      lol

    • @NoobOfLore
      @NoobOfLore 5 років тому +2

      You have a weird concept of "discovering" something that categorically cannot be contained by your brain.

  • @zaephou2843
    @zaephou2843 6 років тому +55

    10:30 There's one contender to the TREE function that can absolutely batter it - SCG (Simple Subcubic Graphs). The problem is that I can't even begin to understand how and why that number is so big, so I guess my video request would be one on SCG.

    • @kannarzoltan7006
      @kannarzoltan7006 6 років тому +7

      Big FOOT

    • @zaephou2843
      @zaephou2843 6 років тому +6

      Utter Oblivion is bigger. Although I suppose you could just mention Cantor's idea of absolute infinity to end any big number discussion there and then.

    • @sage5296
      @sage5296 6 років тому +2

      Zaephou what would be far more interesting would be like if you found another number that was like less than TREE(3) orders of magnitude from TREE(3), like if it was actually coincidentally closeish

  • @joanalbertmirallespascual3606
    @joanalbertmirallespascual3606 5 років тому +19

    2:31 "you might remember what this arrow notation is... exponentiation on steroids" lol

  • @gaspytheghost
    @gaspytheghost 11 місяців тому +2

    I just wanted to find out how big TREE(3) is, not have an actual existential crisis about the universe resetting itself.

  • @tangyspy
    @tangyspy 6 років тому +300

    Have been waiting for this number since over a year

    • @frizider2
      @frizider2 6 років тому +14

      I've been waiting for it since the original graham's number video. When that video was uploaded i was hooked into big numbers and started checking all kinds of different bigger than graham's number numbers. Soon I met the king of them all tree(3) and have been waiting since for numberphile to do a video about it. I wonder if there are any bigger numbers that have been used in math (so obviously not arbitrary ones like tree(3) * 2)

    • @ABc-sv8mv
      @ABc-sv8mv 6 років тому

      hey ash

    • @amiss8828
      @amiss8828 6 років тому +6

      could you say you've been waiting for this number since over T(3) years?

    • @Sakkura1
      @Sakkura1 6 років тому +1

      @frizider2 look up SSCG(3), or even worse SCG(3).

    • @carbrickscity
      @carbrickscity 6 років тому +2

      SCG(13)

  • @Markovisch
    @Markovisch 6 років тому +190

    Matt Parker should estimate TREE(3)

    • @kannarzoltan7006
      @kannarzoltan7006 6 років тому +7

      Markovisch He could, but he doesn't bother doing it.

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 6 років тому +7

      At least he tried XD

    • @skepticmoderate5790
      @skepticmoderate5790 6 років тому +39

      It would be like a kid estimating the number of stars in the night sky.
      "How many stars do you think there are?"
      "Ten."

    • @TheGeneralThings
      @TheGeneralThings 6 років тому +66

      His answer would be a Parker Tree.

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 6 років тому +40

      PARKER(3)=10

  • @SammyBR99
    @SammyBR99 4 роки тому +25

    And 2yrs later, TREE(Graham's number) has been discussed
    That escalated quickly

    • @redvine1105
      @redvine1105 4 роки тому +2

      Soumyadeep Bhattacherjee well to be fair this video already goes way beyond that by talking about diagonalized recursive trees

    • @abombata
      @abombata 4 роки тому +2

      TREE(Gaham's number) is less than TREE(TREE(3))

    • @isaacwebb7918
      @isaacwebb7918 4 роки тому +1

      @@abombata If we assume the function grows with the input, and never drops (easy to prove) then your statement follows naturally from knowing that g(64) < TREE(3), so TREE(n) will be larger for the larger input.
      And TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(TREE(...TREE(3))))))) still doesn't match SSCG(3), even if you nest it TREE(3) layers deep.

  • @willk7184
    @willk7184 4 роки тому +28

    I watched both these videos, but I'm still curious HOW they know it's such a huge number.

    • @SomeGuy-ty7kr
      @SomeGuy-ty7kr 2 роки тому +10

      given that I'm pretty sure the answer to that was someones dissertation, I'm not sure it would comfortably fit into a youtube video, lol

  • @Froggeh92
    @Froggeh92 6 років тому +72

    Shouldve gotten Prof Moriarty to do it so he can say "Tree Tree" over and over again.

  • @Zejgar
    @Zejgar 6 років тому +97

    I expected you to use FOREST(n,m) instead of TREEm(n)!

  • @MrGrumbleguts
    @MrGrumbleguts 5 років тому +91

    "The universe resets itself - This is a disaster." Literally that is what disaster means, the disappearance of stars.

    • @MitruMesre
      @MitruMesre 3 роки тому +3

      "dis" in disaster refers to unluckiness, not disappearance.

  • @MusicFanatical1
    @MusicFanatical1 8 місяців тому +2

    The universe reset itself: an overflow error probably occured.

  • @pixlark4287
    @pixlark4287 6 років тому +50

    FYI: It's spelled KRUSKAL'S if you're interested in looking into it.

  • @simoncarlile5190
    @simoncarlile5190 6 років тому +91

    I'm curious if the size of Tree(n) increases with any kind of regularity as n gets larger. Like if you had an ungodly Cartesian graph where x = n and y = Tree(n), would there be some sort of recognizable pattern in, say, the first 100 y-values? Or does something crazy happen like Tree(57) isn't as large as it "should" be based on all the previous Trees?
    I really want to know more about the growth of the Tree function. I don't really know how much progress has been made (or can be made) in analyzing it this way. After all, Tree(3) doesn't have an upper bound (aside from definitely being finite).

    • @geelzwarteaardbij
      @geelzwarteaardbij 3 роки тому +10

      That is really interesting to think off, just like a logarithmic scale we need one for googological numbers like Graham's number and TREE(3) to visualize just how much bigger these numbers are!

    • @efulmer8675
      @efulmer8675 3 роки тому +11

      Given that the TREE() function has a similar kind of rule set to the permutations of those objects (I am not a mathematician, mathematicians would probably strike me down for saying such a thing), then given that analogy they would probably do something similar in a way as each TREE(n) theoretically would 'contain' the lower TREE() sets within them plus all of the possible permutations of those sets with that extra seed color.
      I wonder if this has anything to do with Group theory as I just realized I'm starting to pose a similar sort of question...

    • @antonhengst8667
      @antonhengst8667 2 роки тому

      Sounds like you're asking if TREE is monotonic

  • @johnny_eth
    @johnny_eth 4 роки тому +4

    New excuse for not sound homework: "there's not enough entropy in the universe to contain my homework"

  • @vepiru5734
    @vepiru5734 Рік тому +2

    Mathematics really feel like magic. By playing a simple game on a piece of paper, you can actually write a concept that is bigger than existence itself. This is mindblowingly elegant.

  • @blackkittyfreak
    @blackkittyfreak 6 років тому +9

    When he started trying to top TREE(3), I almost had a panic attack.

  • @MagnusSkiptonLLC
    @MagnusSkiptonLLC 6 років тому +249

    I know that the first digit of Tree(3) is 1
    in binary

    • @coolguy4989
      @coolguy4989 6 років тому +54

      Skippy the Magnificent and in base TREE(3) the first digit is also a 1

    • @eliorahg
      @eliorahg 4 роки тому +18

      Wow. Just now I realized that first digit of every number in binary is 1.
      Like this is obvious but I never thought about it, thus only now I realized it.

    • @user-me7hx8zf9y
      @user-me7hx8zf9y 4 роки тому +3

      @@coolguy4989 underrated comment

    • @lunox8417
      @lunox8417 4 роки тому +1

      @@eliorahg explain 2

    • @PattyManatty
      @PattyManatty 4 роки тому +1

      @@lunox8417 2 is "10" in binary.

  • @JB-gi5ph
    @JB-gi5ph Рік тому +1

    I love the quick reset of "The universe resets itself." Well played!

  • @nutmegninja23
    @nutmegninja23 4 роки тому +3

    I wasn’t paying too much attention bc this was background noise to me kinda, but if TREE(3) is 2^^1000, the last digit is a 6. Assuming I’m doing this correctly, 2^^1000 = 4*2^^999 = 16*2^^998, etc. since 16 ends in a “6”, and any number ending with a “6” squared results in a number ending in a ”6”, BOOM! You have one of the digits you need. Progress has been made.

    • @TheSmegPod
      @TheSmegPod 2 роки тому +2

      2^^1000 isn't tree3, that's the number of symbols it would take to write down a perfect proof that tree3 is finite

  • @AzazeoAinamart
    @AzazeoAinamart 6 років тому +6

    I literally hear GNASHING OF BOLTS HOLDING EDGES OF THE UNIVERSE when he started making TREE of TREEs

  • @FreeAsInFreeBeer
    @FreeAsInFreeBeer 6 років тому +18

    Dr Tony Padilla, I would love if you talked about busy beavers! I mean, Tree(3) is big alright, but it's still a computable function. Big fan of your videos, really love your enthusiasm!

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie 6 років тому +5

      Shouldn't that be a computerphile video. n-state turing machines.

    • @synchronos1
      @synchronos1 6 років тому +5

      It's already on the Computerphile, and prof. Brailsford videos are one of the best ones there.

    • @isuller
      @isuller 5 років тому

      I'd love to see a proof that TREE(n) is a computable function. I'm not sure about that and I haven't seen a proof - although I've seen it being mentioned that it is computable several times.

    • @FreeAsInFreeBeer
      @FreeAsInFreeBeer 5 років тому +1

      @@isuller A function is computable if there is an algorithm that can (given enough time) compute it. The simplest proof that the Tree-function is computable would be an implementation of that algorithm - it doesn't even need to be very efficient. We can even do it a normal programming language. The naive algorithm that requires the least imagination would be to do an exhaustive search of all possible forests for the given n and return the number of trees in the largest legal forest. The trickiest part would probably be to do the test for inf-embedding - but still conceptually doable. Feel free to reply if there are any questions! :)

    • @iainh
      @iainh Рік тому

      Just a note but this actually happened and he spoke about them in the video regarding Rayo's Number.

  • @oliverbrankodignum2817
    @oliverbrankodignum2817 6 років тому +1

    His neck tendon pops out while he talks. These guys are so beautifully passionate.

  • @Splandrocity
    @Splandrocity 9 місяців тому +4

    Love the excitement of Tony while educating here, these massive numbers are just jaw-dropping from the explanation alone.

  • @Tossphate
    @Tossphate 6 років тому +5

    "...how quasi is your ordering?"
    .."It's well quasi mate"

  • @axelitoxer
    @axelitoxer 6 років тому +9

    4:22 "the universe will eventually reset itself" "reset itself"

  • @timo4258
    @timo4258 5 років тому +16

    How about TREE(TREE(3))?
    EDIT: damit, already done in video

  • @cabbageboi6365
    @cabbageboi6365 Рік тому +1

    I love how the extra footage is longer than the original video

  • @snajper9111
    @snajper9111 2 роки тому +15

    Absolutely love this topic. I’ve watch this episode about x20 times over the last year and I smile every time.
    Great work guys

  • @pcajanandanjali
    @pcajanandanjali 5 років тому +5

    "Universe resets before you can complete the proof" Awww....There goes my plans for the weekend..

  • @loweshaw
    @loweshaw 4 роки тому +1

    Bravo on the cliffhanger from the first video to the second

  • @Fiddlesticks86
    @Fiddlesticks86 5 років тому +8

    7:40 I'm surprised the paper didn't implode into a black hole destroying the entire universe from what you just wrote on it 😂😂

  • @bsuperbrain
    @bsuperbrain 4 роки тому +4

    When he says the universe resets itself, the running frame in the video resets itself. Funny trick! :D

  • @jtveg
    @jtveg 6 років тому +26

    4:23 There was a glitch in the matrix.

    • @davecrupel2817
      @davecrupel2817 6 років тому +4

      John Thimakis It happens when they change something.....

    • @namewarvergeben
      @namewarvergeben 6 років тому +9

      That was the universe resetting itself

    • @sage5296
      @sage5296 6 років тому +1

      Wait a glitch in the matrix? glitch in the matrix?

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 6 років тому +1

      Was it the same gesture or different gesture?

    • @RolandHutchinson
      @RolandHutchinson 5 років тому +1

      If the universe did reset itself, how would we know?

  • @sstrick500
    @sstrick500 8 місяців тому

    Elementary School math class teachers be like: "Solve Tree(3). And show your work."

  • @horvathbotons0
    @horvathbotons0 5 років тому +3

    TREE(Graham's number) did I break the internet?

    • @ses694
      @ses694 4 роки тому

      ...TREE(TREE(TREE(Grahams number)))... Until TREE(Grahams number) amount of TREE functions put into ...TREE(TREE(TREE(Grahams number)))... amount of TREE functions ...TREE(TREE(TREE(Grahams number)))... times

  • @TIO540S1
    @TIO540S1 5 років тому +6

    You touched on the thing that fascinates me the most. Staying strictly with finite numbers, it's still the case that, no matter how you define a large number - TREE, iterated TREE, busy beaver, whatever, almost every number is larger than the number you've defined. Thinking of that fills me with wonder.

    • @Amethyst_Friend
      @Amethyst_Friend 2 роки тому +1

      In fact proportionally, EVERY number is bigger

    • @TIO540S1
      @TIO540S1 2 роки тому +3

      @@Amethyst_Friend Yes. If you select a random positive finite integer (yes, the concept of a "random integer" is problematic, but you know what I mean!), the probability of that integer being smaller than any defined integer (Rayo's number, whatever) is 0.

  • @michadreksler2401
    @michadreksler2401 3 роки тому +6

    If you take tree(3) and substract 10% of it, and add all the numbers together, and then add all the numbers together, and so on as long as it will be just one number I bet this number is 9. 😊

  • @aquilazyy1125
    @aquilazyy1125 8 місяців тому +1

    Sometimes I get the unexplainable nervousness when they write down things like TREE(TREE(3)) as if the universe is gonna explode simply by some sentient being conceiving those numbers.

  • @drjuju3331
    @drjuju3331 6 років тому +12

    I love how excited these guys get about this stuff!! Very interesting

  • @arthurgrandao
    @arthurgrandao 5 років тому +3

    I love how excited he is! You can see he just loves math

  • @gatlinggun511
    @gatlinggun511 3 роки тому

    imagine counting in trees like "1, 3, *stops existing* "

  • @henjoyer
    @henjoyer 4 роки тому +1

    We should have a super long video of just the digits of TREE(3) scrolling across the screen

  • @subscribefornoreason542
    @subscribefornoreason542 4 роки тому +5

    These numbers just embarrass the size of space-time.

  • @regan3873
    @regan3873 4 роки тому +5

    My mind is not abstract enough for this. I kind of get it when he explains it but I’m like “but how do they *know*?

  • @strangequark420
    @strangequark420 Рік тому

    This is one of the few UA-cam videos that I watch over and over again. I'm iterated.

  • @X6herbius
    @X6herbius 2 роки тому

    "I'm gonna call this 'TREE-bar'."
    Oh, so that's what the mints were named after

  • @wyboo2019
    @wyboo2019 11 місяців тому +4

    i think the awesome part of Tree(3) and some other large numbers is that they were not discovered with the intention of finding a large number. im not a part of it but in the Googology fandom there's all these efforts to create simple mathematical situations that give large numbers, but i just like to imagine that, when studying these trees, someone just accidentally stumbled upon Tree(3). its not even close to being as large as Tree(3) but the Monster Group is one of these; a fundamental building block of groups with just completely unexpected size and connection to modular forms

  • @OxidoPEZON
    @OxidoPEZON 6 років тому +7

    I love this guy, please make an interview about his life interests... PLEASE XD

    • @craftyraf
      @craftyraf 6 років тому

      Subscribe to the Numberphile channel and you'll know...

    • @OxidoPEZON
      @OxidoPEZON 6 років тому

      Raf M. I am, and know tidbits from him, but I don't know... Where does he get all this interesting topics if he works on physics. How does he know so much math, or is it not much, just what is asked for theoretical physics?

    • @calamorta
      @calamorta 6 років тому

      Isn't he a Liverpool fan?

  • @arturslunga3415
    @arturslunga3415 2 роки тому

    This guy's enthusiasm is contagious!

  • @evesolis6133
    @evesolis6133 4 роки тому +3

    Just mesmerizing to know that a game involving 3 seeds can exhaust the universe. All that happens during the day, how small you feel you are in the city, how magnificent or insignificant you find yourself, how much crazy thoughts you run through every second, how the existence of all creations of human non human, are not even holding a candle to a small game whose rule can be explained in 3 minutes

  • @user-ft4pb5vb3e
    @user-ft4pb5vb3e 6 років тому +3

    4:39 I just got the image of some guy writing on a piece of parchment scrolling by incredibly fast, and then everything on the parchment disappears and the guy is like, "It reset again???"

  • @Supware
    @Supware 5 років тому +7

    I think it's beautiful that such ridiculous ideas come out of graph theory, given its simple axioms. I feel like I should get this experience from every field of math at some point..?

  • @ayushkumarjha9921
    @ayushkumarjha9921 Рік тому

    Still remember the time when I first learn about a number called Trillion and that blown my mind and here are we now.

  • @laz001
    @laz001 4 роки тому +1

    Dude, thank you for making maths fun to listen to!

  • @pinball1970
    @pinball1970 5 років тому +15

    I got a bit lost after "tree"

  • @spudhead169
    @spudhead169 3 роки тому +3

    I find it fascinating that mathematicians can play around with numbers for which there's not enough space in the universe to fully represent. It's nuts.

  • @donjorgenson9906
    @donjorgenson9906 6 років тому

    Man, I love this guy! Big up Tony!

  • @WeLoveMusicStudio
    @WeLoveMusicStudio 3 роки тому +1

    Tree (tree (3)) makes my heart heavy

  • @wan-hewtran1046
    @wan-hewtran1046 6 років тому +47

    What's the most number of nodes in any tree in TREE(3)?

    • @connorrcompton
      @connorrcompton 6 років тому +46

      Sarthak Bansal TREE(3) means three types of nodes. Not nodes in general.

    • @adamweishaupt3733
      @adamweishaupt3733 6 років тому +15

      Sarthak no it's 3 colors of nodes, the nth tree can have n nodes, but they can only contain 3 colors.

    • @OctagonalSquare
      @OctagonalSquare 6 років тому +7

      It would be 1. As with TREE(1) and TREE(2) you only use one of the single seed options until the very end. Once you have no options that don't include a previous tree, then you use your single seed options. If you use them at any point before the last two, then they will appear in other trees immediately, thereby ending the game prematurely.

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie 6 років тому +1

      Octagonalsquare that was not the question though, his question was as followed.
      What is the global maximum f(x) on the curve that is the curve of nodes pertaining to each iteration of x in the well defined function TREE(n) when n does equal 3.
      Now as far as I'm concerned the upper bound to that question is
      TREE(3)^(1/3)

    • @limbridk
      @limbridk 6 років тому +1

      That is the last tree Octagonalsquare, not the largest tree.