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How big are factorials?

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  1. mohamedmohey · · focus · HN ↗
    This reminded me of tetration and Knuth's up-arrow notation. It's basically repeated exponentiation.

    Searching now, I just learned of tetrofactorial, which is a factorial using tetration operations. There's also pentation which is repeated tetration.

    And there's a whole wiki for it here: googology.fandom.com

    It's fun because the numbers are so big it's basically infinity but any of those numbers is still nothing compared to infinity.

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