#large numbers

It goes on for hundreds of pages. I feel like there's something I should be doing with it but I'm not sure what.

He begins with a putdown of someone else's System for Describing Extremely Large Numbers, and seems to have given various concepts or processes silly names.

I'm thinking I'll email the guy he's putting down to see if my grandfather ever actually got in contact with him or just printed out his challenge and kept it on the front of his binder o' weird math for years, which sounds like something he'd do tbh.

Did you know this?

It ban block ninety-nine other creatures?! Well that’s cool but in most games it’s not gonna do more than, like, seven or eight. Helix Pinnacle needs one hundred counters?!? That’s one more than ninety-nine! But not super difficult in a good ramp deck after like ten turns, maybe fifteen. Providence sets your life total to twenty six? That’s just weird. The point is that big numbers are super cool in Magic and we don’t see them a lot. Unless...

Create a card with a number (typed or numeric) greater than 20/twenty in its RULES TEXT. Strong winners will have flavor justifications for their cards while being balanced enough for limited and/or constructed play. Remember that players would be theoretically opening these in booster packs not just for drafting, but also for their own personal deckbuilding, casual or otherwise.

I think this contest will be super cool, but a little more difficult. If anything comes to mind, please, please submit! We don’t get anything from this blog but enjoyment itself, and that comes from seeing your work.

I finally got around to practicing numbers with a Japanese study buddy!  We mostly practiced numbers longer than four digits, because we’re not used to thinking in 万.

Here are some things I noticed:

There are a couple different ways to practice: 1) Person A writes a number, Person B says it in Japanese. 2) Person A says a number in Japanese, Person B writes it. 3) Person A says a number in English, Person B says it in Japanese. 4) Person A says a number in Japanese, Person B says it in English. We practiced all but the last one. Writing the numbers down was easier because you could visually separate where to start the 万 separation, so having both people say the numbers is the biggest challenge.

We were reallllllly slow at first! Especially with numbers in the 7 and 8 digit range.

You can use a random number generator, keysmash, or just think of some random number (but it helps to have a reference to know if the other person got it right).

92740173  might be good practice, but using method 3), this becomes more of a memory problem than a Japanese problem. It worked better to practice with simpler numbers like 92000000 or 92700100.  Plus, once you get up that high, you mostly see round numbers anyway.