2009.01.10

2009.01.10 14:27 Saturday

There will be no update on 2009.01.13 or 2009.01.14 for the coming week. The reason is that I have personal matters to attend to that will keep me busy, and I will not be working on my site for the coming days.

Whether an update will occur the following week is also unknown. The best case scenario is that an update will not be forthcoming for at least 3 weeks from the previous update. That would mean that if all goes well , the earliest new update might occur on 2009.01.27 or 2009.01.28 .

The growth and survival of this site is of coarse contingent on myself and my position to provide such a "service". If for whatever reason I am not able to continue working on this site, I will make arrangements to have the rest of my work published immediately on an as is basis and have it linked to my published sites and pages. I simply wish that whatever information I provide will be made use of, and that others will continue to improve the art of large numbers. I also hope that my findings will be recieved positively and will be of use to others. Note that this is not an endorsement for others to take credit for my work. However everyone is entitled to cite my work in their own research at their own choosing. This should go without saying of coarse. I also hope that I have given proper credit to my sources.

I'd like to thank those who have visited my website, and welcome future visitors to view the content that has been produced. I also hope that this information will be disseminated properly so it can be used to fuel further study into large numbers.

If everything goes well, then I will continue to provide support for this site, and my findings will be published as I prepare articles explaining them. However, updates may be more paced from this point on. If you look at the updates column on the right side of my homepage you can observe that there has been an update roughly once a week since the inception of this site. This pace has proven to be somewhat feverish. I have been considering slowing the pace to a much more managable 1 update for every 2 weeks. If I do decide to make this standard policy then I will make an announcement about this change. I may also decide updates will be made either within 1 or 2 weeks of the previous update based on conditions. It is also possible that I may have to slow the pace further. Regardless however, it is my intention to continue to update this site when possible so that I can present as many of the interesting aspects of the subject of large numbers as possible.

The fact of the matter is that the subject of large numbers always has and always will be open ended. There probably will never be a final word on such a subject as long as there are still people interested in contemplating such abstractions. Likewise this site will probably never be finnished in any conclusive kind of way. As new findings are made, or I learn more about the information out there , I will try to accommodate accordingly.

The next goal will be to complete Section II in the first few months of 2009. How much time that will take is uncertain. However, the volume of work that I have produced in the small period of a month is encouraging. After this is complete there will be more for me to discuss, but I hesitate to say anything about it because that is still a ways off.

If your a new comer, feel free to explore this site. I hope that it proves entertaining and informative. I also hope that it not only inspires fascination with large numbers but with mathematics in general. It's a subject which is often under appreciated even in professional circles because it is purely "conceptual". None the less mathematics has been instrumental to our understanding of how our world works and how best to operate within it. Can any conception truly be so abstract as to bare no relevance to reality ? It's tempting to speculate that any thought composed within reality must bare some resemblance to it, and therefore some relevance. It's certainly an interesting question.

I will have to close on that note. Another service announcement might be made before another update, so keep posted.

Sincerely,

-- Sbiis Saibian