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JoshuaZ comments on Approaching Infinity - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: Psychohistorian 01 February 2011 08:11AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 01 February 2011 02:23:33PM 1 point [-]

I second Oscar's note below. Incidentally, the operation you are talking about is very similar to (although not precisely the same as) Knuth's arrow notation.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 02 February 2011 12:39:51AM *  1 point [-]

The reference to polygons suggests a variant of Steinhaus-Moser notation, though I think those are pretty similar anyway.

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