Knuth's up-arrow notation
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Knuth's up-arrow notation
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In mathematics, Knuth's up-arrow notation is a method of notation for very large integers, introduced by Donald Knuth in 1976. In his 1947 paper, R. L. Goodstein introduced the specific sequence of operations that are now called hyperoperations. Goodstein also suggested the Greek names tetration, pentation, etc., for the extended operations beyond exponentiation. The sequence starts with a unary operation (the successor function with n = 0), and continues with the binary operations of addition (
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Method of notation of very large integers
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2003-07-03T05:51:04Z
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2024-09-13T09:43:25Z
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