Yes, but you have to take care how you calculate compound indices -
unlike addition and multiplication, they are not associative;
ie (3^3)^3 = 27^3 = 19,683 but 3^(3^3) = 3^27 = 7,625,597,484,987.
Mark
--- In [email protected], "prokofiev2006"
<alexis.monnerotdumaine@...> wrote:
unlike addition and multiplication, they are not associative;
ie (3^3)^3 = 27^3 = 19,683 but 3^(3^3) = 3^27 = 7,625,597,484,987.
Mark
--- In [email protected], "prokofiev2006"
<alexis.monnerotdumaine@...> wrote:
>
> Very nice ! (or should I say "very nice !!")
> Simple and elegant sequence.
> And growing very fast.
> In the same idea, one can define : 0, 1^1, 2^2^2, 3^3^3^3 and so on.
>
> Alexis
>
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "Mark" <secret.squirrel@> wrote:
> >
> > Zara is the Cookie Master!
> >
> > Very minor correction: 1st term is actually 0 (no factorial)
> >
> > Alexis and Suyono - you missed by one "!" !
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Juan Antonio Zaratiegui
> Vallecillo
> > <yozara@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Mark escribió:
> > > > Alexis, Suyono, Zara
> > > >
> > > > You are all very close!
> > > >
> > > > Zara - I agree with you. No nasty Excel stuff in my formula.
> The
> > most
> > > > advanced/complicated "function" is factorial.
> > > >
> > > > I'll let you all have a sniff of the cookie jar to encourage
> > you :-)
> > > > *opens lid*
> > > >
> > > > mmmm..mmmhhhh
> > > >
> > > > Mark
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > These cookies smell really nice!
> > >
> > > First term is
> > > Second term is 1!
> > > Third term is 2!!
> > > Fourth term is 3!!!
> > > Fifth term is 4!!!!
> > > Sixth term is 5!!!!!
> > >
> > > nth term is (n-1)(!^(n-1)), so to say
> > >
> > > Zara
> > >
> >
>