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Harvey Friedman's TREE(3)
Peano Arithmetic / Weak Set Theories
Proved by Harvey Friedman 1998
The function TREE(n) grows so fast that proving TREE(3) is finite requires axioms far beyond PA. The number itself is incomprehensibly large.
SIGNIFICANCE
A concrete, finitely-stated combinatorial fact whose proof escapes most standard axiomatic systems.
Neither provable nor refutable · rotates daily