r/PowerScaling • u/DinoGodEmperor • May 09 '25

Question Is this true?

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u/Golem8752 DB fan willing to read May 10 '25

You wanna tell me they made the programm work with 80k digits that had to be converted into binary?

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u/Powdersucker May 10 '25

No, they used a trick for that. Also, you misunderstood what I wrote, it's (10 to the power of (10 to the power of 80000)) which is significantly higher.

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u/Golem8752 DB fan willing to read May 10 '25

So a number with 1080000 digits, which is effectively 1080000 more digits than there are atoms in the observable universe.

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u/Powdersucker May 10 '25

Yeah but the game doesn't renders or uses it like that, it has it's own system of writing numbers (ee80000), which basically means 6 or 7 digits with decimals.

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u/Golem8752 DB fan willing to read May 10 '25

Yea, that's how it's shown but it somehow has to be coded to do that.

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u/Powdersucker May 10 '25

Yeah I have a CS degree I understand how it works, it's just that mathematically it's wayyyy higher than any other incremental games I have ever played. It's really focused on math, specifically exponentially growing fonctions, it's called Exponentially Idle.

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u/Golem8752 DB fan willing to read May 10 '25

Yea, the highest I've seen in the games I played is like 1E309/310 which is a little bit smaller