The earlier parts of this article are very well summarised by Adam Townsend in the wonderful article in UCL's chalkdust magazine This page begins with million, billion, etc., proceeds through Googolplex and Skewes' numbers (organised into "classes" based on the height of the power-tower involved), then moves on through "tetration", the Moser and the "Graham-Rothschild number", on to lesser-known h