From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihuxr!lew
Newsgroups: net.trivia
Title: Skewes' number
Article-I.D.: ihuxr.172
Posted: Fri Oct 29 12:24:13 1982
Received: Sat Oct 30 02:46:51 1982

According to P. J. Davis' "The Lore of Large Numbers", Skewes' (not Skewe's)
number is 10^(10^(10^34)). It is "reputed to be the largest number that has
occurred in a mathematical proof."

Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew