Math question (DBO)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Sunday, November 22, 2015, 19:34 (3295 days ago) @ Funkmon

I never got far enough in math to learn this stuff on my own. I was briefly introduced to that once by a math grass student in a physics class. My question that he couldn't answer, and that I can't answer myself after checking the wikipedia page, is why not just use exponents?

Certain numbers, like Graham's number, are too big to even be represented with exponents.