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tetración
The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ᵇᵃ denoting a to the power of a to the power of … to the power of a, in which a appears b times.
Repeated exponentiation—called tetration—is so rare that a shorthand for it is hardly worth the trouble, appealing only to research mathematicians. Most professional engineers and…
You don't ordinarily hear much about tetration because it is so powerful an operation that tetrating even very small numbers with each other produces inordinately large numbers. A…
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