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From: osman@sprite.DEC (Eric,  617 273-7484, Burlington, Ma. 01803, USA)
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Subject: (SPOILER) [I hope] to x^x^x... = 2
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 10:11:18 EDT
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It seems to me that given

	x^x^x...=2

then everything AFTER the first x is ALSO equal to 2 because it's the same
(since the x's go on forever).  Hence we can write

	x^2     =2

So x is the square root of 2.

/Eric