Timeline for How to calculate [10^10^10^10^10^-10^10]?
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| Oct 27, 2021 at 23:05 | comment | added | Vladimir Reshetnikov | @EFinat-S I experimented with various power towers, just for fun, and then I thought: is it possible to construct a non-trivial problem about power towers that results in a “small” number (i.e. a number whose decimal expansion is practically possible to fully write down), and I came up with this question. | |
| Oct 27, 2021 at 16:26 | comment | added | efs | Just for curiosisty: Was there any context for the appearance of this number? | |
| Oct 27, 2021 at 16:19 | history | edited | GH from MO |
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| Dec 2, 2011 at 19:18 | vote | accept | Vladimir Reshetnikov | ||
| Oct 27, 2011 at 1:03 | answer | added | GH from MO | timeline score: 90 | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 0:38 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | Dear Vladimir, I dont think so. Evaluate using the approximation exp x is close to 1+x when x is small (so 10^x is close to 1+log_e 10 x, and also 10^{a+b}=10^a 10^b. Is there a research motivation behind this cute) question? | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 0:35 | comment | added | user9072 | @GH: Thanks! So, it was me being confused. Sorry for the noise. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 0:28 | comment | added | GH from MO | @quid: It is -10^10, not (-10)^10. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 0:27 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Only slightly related, but for amusement, check out math.stackexchange.com/questions/72646/… | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 0:27 | comment | added | user9072 | Either I am temorarily confused or I do not understand this question. (-10)^10 = 10^10, so? Or is there a typo? | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 0:18 | history | asked | Vladimir Reshetnikov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |