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Shortest terminating program whose output size exceeds Graham's number

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What is the millionth decimal digit of the $ 10^{10^{10^{10}}} $-th prime?

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Lifetime of a Worm

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Make a Voronoi diagram (ASCII variant)

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Does iterating $n \to 2n+1$ always eventually produce a prime number?

number-theory prime-numbers asked Dec 25 '11 at 20:50
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Always oddly-many ones in the binary expression for $10^{10^{n}}$?

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Do runs of every length occur in this string?

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How many planar arrangements of $n$ circles?

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Is string X a subsequence of string Y?

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Do any of these sequences have infinitely-many distinct iterates under run-length substitution?

sequences-and-series discrete-mathematics dynamical-systems recreational-mathematics asked Mar 16 '15 at 1:28
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Always oddly-many ones in the binary expression for $10^{10^{n}}$?
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Is there a number so large that we could never calculate it?
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How large is TREE(3)?
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does this matrix represent some string
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