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tetrations

tetrations is the plural of tetration.

Meaning of tetration

Noun

tetration (usually uncountable, plural tetrations)

  1. (usually) 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.
    • 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 tetration is worked out...1982 May, Rudy Rucker, “All the Numbers”, in Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite, Boston, Mass.; Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg: Birkhäuser, →ISBN, page 69

Questions about tetrations

What is tetrations the plural of?
Tetrations is the plural of tetration.

Words near tetrations in the dictionary

  1. tetrathlon
  2. tetrathlons
  3. tetrating
  4. tetration
  5. tetrational
  6. tetrations
  7. tetratitanium
  8. tetratomic
  9. tetratomid
  10. tetratomids
  11. tetratonic

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