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(2002) Synthese 133 (1-2).

A term of length 4 523 659 424 929

A. R. D. Mathias

pp. 75-86

Bourbaki suggest that their definition of the number 1 runs to some tens of thousands of symbols. We show that that is a considerable under-estimate, the true number of symbols being that in the title, not counting 1 179 618 517 981 links between symbols that are needed to disambiguate the whole expression.

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DOI: 10.1023/A:1020827725055

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Mathias, A. R. (2002). A term of length 4 523 659 424 929. Synthese 133 (1-2), pp. 75-86.

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