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Bigger than 36m in diameter probably. The thing is, at those sizes the clusters of engines needed will prevent the rocket from being a nice neat tower as with Saturn V or Starship. The mega-sized heavy lifters of the future will look more like ever-more bloated versions of the N1, getting thiccer and thiccer at the base.
If my huge spacecraft in KSP are anything to go by, they will eventually look more like a giant pistol cartridge with a flared out base.

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