Tetration

Fig.1. Tetration $\mathrm {tet} _{b}(x)$ for $b=\mathrm {e}$, $b=2$, $b=\exp(1/\mathrm {e} )$, and $b={\sqrt {2}}$ versus $x$.

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Definiton

For real $b>1$, Tetration $F=\mathrm {tet} _{b}$ on the base $b$ is function of complex variable, which is holomorphic at least in the range $\{z\in \mathbb {C} :~\Re (z)>-2\}$, bounded in the range $\{z\in \mathbb {C} :~|\Re (z)|\leq 1\}$, and satisfies conditions

$F(z+1)=\exp _{b}\!{\big (}F(z){\big )}$

$F(0)=1$

$F\!{\big (}z^{*}{\big )}=F{\big (}z{\big )}^{*}$

at least within range $\Re (z)>-2$.

Real values of the arguments

Examples of behavior of this function at the real axis are shown in figure 1 for values $b=\mathrm {e}$, $b=2$, $b=\exp(1/\mathrm {e} )$, and for $b={\sqrt {2}}$. It has logarithmic singularity at $-2$, and it is monotonously increasing function.

At $b\leq \exp(1/\mathrm {e} )$ tetration $\mathrm {tet} _{b}(x)$ approaches its limiting value as $x\rightarrow +\infty$, and $\displaystyle \lim _{x\rightarrow +\infty }~\mathrm {tet} _{b}(x)>1$.

At $b>\exp(1/\mathrm {e} )$ tetration $\mathrm {tet} _{b}(x)$ grows faster than any exponential function. For this reason the tetration is suggested for the representation of huge numbers in mathematics of computation. A number, that cannot be stored as floating point, could be stored as $\mathrm {tet} _{b}(x)$ for some standard value of $b$ (for example, $b=2$ or $b=\mathrm {e}$) and relatively moderate value of $x$. The analytic properties of tetration could be used for the implementation of arithmetic operations without to convert numbers to the floating point representation.

Integer values of the argument

For integer $z$, tetration

${\rm {tet}}_{b}$

Etymology

Creation of word tetration is attributed to Englidh mathematician Reuben Louis Goodstein .

Piecewice tetration

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Analytic tetration

This section is not yet written. There is non-finished draft at User:Dmitrii Kouznetsov/Analytic Tetration.

Free online sources

• http://reglos.de/lars/ffx.html , Lars Kindermann. References about Iterative Roots and Fractional Iteration.
• http://math.eretrandre.org/tetrationforum/index.php , Discussion about tetration
• http://tetration.itgo.com/ Tetration site by Andrew Robbins
• http://www.tetration.org/ Tetration site by Daniel Geisler