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Hyper Scientific Notation for Unspeakably Large Numbers

4 pointsby nickdrozdalmost 3 years ago

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nickdrozdalmost 3 years ago
Numbers that are expressed using Knuth&#x27;s up-arrow notation can be difficult to compare. Say you have a number N such that 10↑↑15 &lt; N &lt; 10↑↑16. 10↑↑15 and 10↑↑16 look like they should be pretty close, because 15 and 16 are pretty close. But really 10↑↑16 is way way bigger than 10↑↑15, so the given bounds on N aren&#x27;t very helpful.<p>This article proposes a notation to improve the granularity of up-arrow notation.
FrozenVoidalmost 3 years ago
Check <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Symmetric_level-index_arithmetic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Symmetric_level-index_arithmet...</a>