Iterated logarithm
The Endeavour 2025-06-04
Summary:
Logarithms give a way to describe large numbers compactly. But sometimes even the logarithm is a huge number, and it would be convenient to take the log again. And maybe again. For example, consider googolplex = 10googol where googol = 10100. (The name googol is older than “Google,” and in fact the former inspired the […]
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