More Math Oddities
Aug. 13th, 2002 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackofallgeeksThe Mathmagician strikes again!
Tetration, it seems, is a mathmatical operation more powerful than exponents. Written as ab, and read as "b tetriated to the a," it is basically a stacking of exponents, such that 42 would be:
2222
It's rarely used because tetrating with even small numbers gives you very large numbers. In the above example, you end up with 64,536.
Tetration, it seems, is a mathmatical operation more powerful than exponents. Written as ab, and read as "b tetriated to the a," it is basically a stacking of exponents, such that 42 would be:
2222
It's rarely used because tetrating with even small numbers gives you very large numbers. In the above example, you end up with 64,536.
