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Beyond Knuth's notation for unimaginable numbers within computational number theory

Beyond Knuth's notation for unimaginable numbers within computational number theory

Literature considers under the name "unimaginable numbers" any positive integer going beyond any physical application. One of the most known methodologies to conceive such numbers is using hyper-operations, that is a sequence of binary functions dened recursively starting from the usual chain: addition - multiplication - exponentiation. The most important …