Abstract: In December 2001, David Moews held a programming contest to see whose short C program would return the largest number on a theoretical computer where the int datatype has no bounds. I found the resulting submissions and the methods used to analyze them interesting, forming the basis of this talk.
In this talk, we will see a fast growing hierarchy of functions, marvel at an interesting function that gives us a surprising encounter with infinity, and pry the winning entry from the cold dead hands of the limits of computation.
