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Mathematicians discover largest number.

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Maths - PALO ALTO, CA - An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integer that surpasses any previously known value. The theoretical number, dubbed a "stimulus," could lead to breakthroughs in fields as diverse as astrophysics, quantum mechanics, and Chicago asphalt contracting.

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    "Unlike previous large numbers like the Googleplex or the Gazillion, the Stimulus has no static numerical definition," said Xiao. "It keeps growing and growing, compounding factorially, eating up all zeros in its path. It moves freely across Cartesian dimensions and has the power to make any other number irrational." Jean-Luc Brossard, a researcher with the European consortium CERN, said the number is so staggeringly large that it is difficult for even mathematicians to grasp, let alone lay people.

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