It seems that someone sequentially ran up to around 131k (at the moment), I can't get any lower new number. Also please restore the input when a database error occurs...
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#12How high can the numbers go?
10^10000 - 1 is the largest allowed number.
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#13I'm not sure whether I'm taking too seriously something intended as a joke, but this in fact can conceivably be useful! When studying mathematical problems, sometimes you have a number that has some special meaning in your problem (e.g., the first value for which some phenomenon does not occur), you may be able to compute this number by brute-force or by ad-hoc reasoning, and if the number is high enough then someone else finding this number may mean that they are looking at the same problem as you. Since there's a canonical way to write numbers, but not a canonical way to define problems, then this can be helpful for these people to find each other.
An example of a similar phenomenon here https://a3nm.net/work/research/questions/#words-without-shuf... where someone interested in the sequence "abcacbacabc" is plausibly looking at the longest and lexicographically smallest ternary word without a shuffle square substring. Just searching for "abcacbacabc" on Google yields papers who look at this -- and two people independently coming up with the concept could find each other in this way if they write examples the same way even if they don't use the same words to define the concept.
(A related resource in maths is the OEIS https://oeis.org/ to see whether the integer sequence you came up with has already been studied or has another non-obvious reformulation.)
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#1467 has been searched 13k+ times, more than 69 and 420 combined Times are changing
Oh lord I feel old, I couldn't figure out why 67 was special until I read this.
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#15The time it takes for the server to check whether the number exists is too long imo.
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#16Well I can tell there are at least 2 other people crawling every number incrementally... Numberwang!
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#17Oddly, “7070” seems to always return a Database Error for me. Other numbers work fine.
Interesting: 1729 gave me a Database Error the first time, then came back with 34 previous searches
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#18I'm not sure whether I'm taking too seriously something intended as a joke, but this in fact can conceivably be useful! When studying mathematical problems, sometimes you have a number that has some special meaning in your problem (e.g., the first value for which some phenomenon does not occur), you may be able to compute this number by brute-force or by ad-hoc reasoning, and if the number is high enough then someone…
A more general approach are Encyclopedias of integer series. I think that works better than just focusing on single numbers. Hm. How many numbers are there, that are interesting, but not part of a series?
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#1967 has been searched 13k+ times, more than 69 and 420 combined Times are changing
Not according to https://numberresearch.xyz/info
most searched:
69 29504 searches
67 13640 searches
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#20Are they finding the numbers least likely to be used on lottery tickets?