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A Term of Length 4 523 659 424 929

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Bourbaki suggest that their definition of the number 1 runs to some tens of thousands of symbols. We show that that is a considerable under-estimate, the true number of symbols being that in the title, not counting 1 179 618 517 981 links between symbols that are needed to disambiguate the whole expression.

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Mathias, A.R.D. A Term of Length 4 523 659 424 929. Synthese 133, 75–86 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020827725055

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