Largest Integer Expressible by 3 Digits/Logarithm Base 10/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Largest Integer Expressible by 3 Digits: Logarithm Base $10$
Horace Scudder Uhler published the value of $\map {\log_{10} } {9^{9^9} }$ to $250$ decimal places in $1947$.
Apparently he found this sort of calculation relaxing.
Sources
- April 1953: Adrian Struyk: Mathematical Miscellanea (The Mathematics Teacher Vol. 46, no. 4: pp. 265 – 273) www.jstor.org/stable/27954274
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $9^{9^9}$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $9^{9^9}$