Here's a riddle:

[Squatch]

What is the largest number you can create with 2 digits?

(Hint: it is not 99)

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. 9^9

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. 99!

[anarch]

3. hmmm...

9⁹?


or maybe:

9⁹

[Squatch]

4. I think you and Rabrr are correct...we shall see

It's the office pool question of the week.

[Deep13]

7. I believe 99! (factorial) is > 9 exponent 9

In fact, it is also greate than the 'MM' I suggested.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

8. It's *much* higher.

99! FTW

[Deep13]

9. um, what's 'FTW'?

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

10. For The Win, I think.

[ghostsofgiants]

17. According to Tiger Army, "Fuck The World".

[anarch]

11. unless the question is: "using *only* two digits"...i.e. no symbols n/t

[Deep13]

12. 9 exp. 9 is nearly 400 million and uses no symbols ...

... when written by hand, typewriter or a fancy word processor. It is just a big 9 with a little 9 at its one o'clock position. If that is not allowed, then I fall back on my MM guess.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Did we get an answer yet?

Definitely, 99! is the largest if we can use symbols, though there's proabbly even something larger than that that one can make using multiple symbols...

But with no symbols, 9^9 would be it (since one writes it without the ^)

[Kenneth ken]

5. oh man, it's more of that math crap

that got me in trouble last time. :eyes: :scared: :P

[Deep13]

6. MM, or 2000

[NV Whino]

13. two

That's using two digits (fingers).

[aePrime]

14. 1/0

Of course, technically, you'd have to take the limit.

And 99! is MUCH larger than 9^9.

Edited to say that there are, of course, functions that grow even faster than factorial.

[Debi]

15. AAck, Lounge nerds

:scared: hold me....

[HEyHEY]

16. 909