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What is the highest number that anyone has ever counted?

My maximum number count is 4500+ something.
@FQT said in #1:
> My maximum number count is 4500+ something.
i didn't really count but one time after my school's testing I wrote numbers on a page from 1 until ~1,100
I could count to darn near 100 when i graduated from fifth grade. After that i jest worked on my daddy's farm i reckon i could get to two dozen or so now.
i dont remember the highest number but it must have been when i was counting money.also i counted 32 definitly counting chess pieces to see if all the pieces exist in the chess set.
ANSWER: The number just before the next one!

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Rough, quick proof that the integers increase forever:

Assume there's a "largest" integer. Call it N for the sake of convenience.

The integers are closed under the operation of addition. So, if we add an integer to an integer, we get another integer.

N+ 1 is therefore a new integer: one which is 1 larger than N.

So N can't be the largest, as we incorrectly assumed at the beginning.

Clearly, the assumption that there is a largest integer is incorrect. So, the integers increase without limit.

So however long or high you count, the integer your reach is the integer just before the next one.