Monday, December 11, 2023

The Monster: 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000

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While reviewing entries in the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, I came across one of the larger integers that is a term of a sequence: 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000. It is the order of the 26th Sporadic Simple Groups and is also known as the Monster Group.

Grant Sanderson has a video on the 3Blue1Green series: Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,833-dimensional monster. 

The OEIS sequence with this number is found here: https://oeis.org/A001228.

Other mathematicians posted videos about their favorite number over one million at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MegaFavNumbers.


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