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pentation

noun

Etymology

From penta- + (itera)tion. The word was coined by the English mathematician Reuben Goodstein (1912–1985).

  1. derived from iterātiō
  2. formed as pentation — “penta- + iteration”

Definitions

  1. The arithmetic operation of repeated tetration.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA