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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No. The amount of time it takes to write Rayo's number is 1, in units of Rayotime.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Correct but not the answer we're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Ok, then it takes two Planck times if you write it in base Rayo.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Write it how? Seeing as Rayo's number is defined as the smallest number bigger than what can be written in first order set theory with a googol symbols, you could probably write down the number with, say, googol+1 symbols. Or let's just say 2*googol symbols, that should certainly be enough. It would not take Rayo's number amount of seconds to write down 2 * googol symbols.

TL;DR: No.