Loader's number

View full site to see MathJax equation Loader's number is the output of loader.c, a C program by Ralph Loader[1] that came in first place for the Bignum Bakeoff contest, whose objective was to write a C program (in 512 characters or less) that generates the largest possible output on a theoretical machine with infinite memory.[2][3] A layman's explanation of the ideas behind loader.c can be found in the last two videos of this Youtube playlist on the Bignum Bakeoff contest. Ralph Loader explains