We’ve found the first five Busy Beaver numbers, but the sixth may be bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
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