**The Story of Large Numbers, a dive into the unknown**

Our story begins with a game. A simple one at first, but one that will get progressively more and more intriguing as well as complex. And so, we begin.

*Using only one sheet of paper, write the largest number you can, using common mathematical notation and/or any notation you can define on the backside of the sheet of paper. The dimensions of the paper are not important, and merely serve to set reasonable limits to what we can write.*

So, how did you do?

Hopefully, you didn't say "Hm, I'm gonna fill the entire sheet of paper with 9's and leave it at that" because that means you didn't really try hard at all. You missed the entire point of the backside of the sheet of paper and the allowance of any common mathematical notation. So if this is you, go back and try again.

Hopefully, unlike the previous group of people, you noticed that you could do something like...
9*9*9*9*9*....*9
and go all the way across the paper. Admit-ably, this isn't terrible... but its still not much. If you only got this far, want to try agai…