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From: halvers@iraq.steinmetz (peter c halverson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
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Date: 14 Jan 88 14:45:22 GMT
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As long as we're asking for an exponentiation operator '**', what about
hyperexponentiation? i.e.

        ... (y times)   
      x
    x
  x
                                                                n
We could use '***'.  Even better, why not generalize, and have *
be the operator for the nth Ackermann's function?

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Pete Halverson                       ARPA: halverson@ge-crd.ARPA
General Electric Company             UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!iraq!halvers
Corporate R & D                            
Schenectady, NY

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