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you get to strike your keyboard 5 times. shift, etc. counts. what's the biggest number you can write out?

what about 10 times?

Re: branching off of the \"paradox\" thread
 

9^99

or perhaps,

F^FF

ten is,

9^9^9^9

This assumes we don't allow the factorial operation which is kind of a cheat.

Re: branching off of the \"paradox\" thread
 

what about

9!!

or if you're allowed to hold shift as 1 strike

9!!!

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you get to strike your keyboard 5 times. shift, etc. counts. what's the biggest number you can write out?

what about 10 times?

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Just 3 key presses:

3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then I got sick of holding keys down.