Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Mind Blowing

Knuth Arrow Notation

Well, why didn't I see that before... I understood the addition, multiplication, exponentiation analogy... shouldn't have been hard to consider tetration.

However, Pentation (triple arrows) scares me to no end... what a model of growth. What physical analogue can there be to a process like that?

1 comment:

Dan said...

So then addition, multiplication, and exponentiation are specific types of accumulation...