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8 Post author: Psychohistorian 05 May 2011 03:44AM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 05 May 2011 11:51:52AM 0 points [-]

Idle question: which is bigger, (3^^^3)^^^(3^^^3), or 4^^^^4? And how can you tell?

Comment author: wedrifid 05 May 2011 04:59:23PM 2 points [-]

Idle question: which is bigger, (3^^^3)^^^(3^^^3), or 4^^^^4?

4 ^^^^^ 4 is waay bigger. And 3 ^^^^ 3 is itself bigger than (3^^^3)^^^(3^^^3).

And how can you tell?

3 ^^^^ 3 is equal to (3 ^^^ (3 ^^^ (3 ^^^ 3))). Which seems to be a more powerful way to hook up a bunch of pentation operators than having them in separate parenthised branches.

Comment author: khafra 05 May 2011 12:56:48PM 1 point [-]