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.
Infinity is an idea, so we can't say that it's the largest number possible. If we're talking about named numbers (like million, billion, trillion) then one of the biggest we can talk about is a googol. A googol is 1.0 x 10100 - which is a scientific way of writing a one followed by 100 zeros.