heptation
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- (Mathématiques) (Rare) Opération consistant à un empilement d’hexations.
getting the right answer with the wrong process is still wrong, and it opens you up to getting wrong answers later, too. just because treating heptation as addition still gets you an answer of 4 when the numbers you’re starting with are 2 and 2 doesn’t mean you’re actually good…
— (Tweet de @deathbian publié le 18 décembre 2023 à 19h41 → lire en ligne)Pentation is followed by hexation, heptation, octation… it never ends. Countless notations have been created that extend this basic idea of recursion to incredible heights. However, I’m going to be focusing on one in particular, one that is immensely powerful, the original focus of this article—the fast-growing hierarchy.
— (galactika!, The Fast-growing Hierarchy: A Journey up an Endless Ladder, 20 juillet 2020 sur medium.com → lire en ligne)This procedure will perform different order arithmetic operation with b and c, putting the result in a. The order of the operation is given by op. For op =1 addition is performed. For op=2 multiplication, repeated addition, is done. […] For op = 4 tetration, repeated exposentiation, is done. For op = 5, 6, 7, etc., the procedure performs pentation, hexation, heptation, etc., respectively.
— (R. E. Grench, H. C. Thacher, Jr., COLLECTED ALGORITHMS 1960-1963 from the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Argonne National Laboratory, page 65, ANL-7054 → lire en ligne)
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