The day the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War..  Afghanistan, then, in a sense, became the United States' pawn.
There is no largest number. One simple way to consider this is to  look at the function:    f(x) = x + 1    Pick any number, and plug it into that function. No â¦ matter what  number you plug in, the function will always give you a number that  is one larger than the previous one. It doesn't matter how big x  is, there will always be an x + 1 value, which will always be  larger than x.
The largest prime number yet discovered â all 17 million digits of it. Ever since Euclid proved there were an infinite number of prime numbers, mathematicians have been on a quest to find higher and higher examples. Wednesday 6 February 2013 09.28 EST First published on Wednesday 6 February 2013 09.28 EST.