Geek death match

Sort of. Two philosophy professors (from MIT and Princeton) dueled to write the largest possible finite number on a chalkboard. Guess who won?

The number: "The smallest number bigger than any number that can be named by an expression in the language of first order set-theory with less than a googol (10^100) symbols."

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