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Noun [English]

IPA: /tɛˈtɹeɪʃn̩/ [Received-Pronunciation], /tɛˈtɹeɪʃən/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tetration.wav Forms: tetrations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: PIE word *kʷetwóres From tetra- (prefix meaning ‘four’) + (itera)tion, from the fact that tetration is in fourth place after addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. The word was coined by the English mathematician Reuben Goodstein (1912–1985). Etymology templates: {{PIE word|en|kʷetwóres}} PIE word *kʷetwóres, {{glossary|prefix}} prefix, {{affix|en|tetra-|iteration|alt2=(itera)tion|pos1=prefix meaning ‘four’}} tetra- (prefix meaning ‘four’) + (itera)tion, {{coinage|en|Reuben Goodstein|nat=the English|nocap=1|occ=mathematician}} coined by the English mathematician Reuben Goodstein Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} tetration (usually uncountable, plural tetrations)
  1. (arithmetic) The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ᵇᵃ denoting a to the power of a to the power of … to the power of a, in which a appears b times. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Arithmetic, Four Synonyms: exponential map, hyper4, hyperpower, power tower, superexponentiation Derived forms: tetrational Related terms: tetrate Translations (arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation): tetrimi (Albanian), тетрация (tetracija) (Bulgarian), 超-4運算 (Chinese Mandarin), 超-4运算 (chāo-4 yùnsuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), tetrace (Czech), tetration (Danish), tetratie (Dutch), supereksponento (Esperanto), tetraatio (Finnish), tétration [feminine] (French), tetración [feminine] (Galician), Tetration [feminine] (German), Potenzturm [masculine] (German), טטרציה (Hebrew), tetráció (Hungarian), tetrasi (Indonesian), tetrazione [feminine] (Italian), テトレーション (tetorēshon) (Japanese), тетрация (tetrasiä) (Kazakh), гипердәреже (giperdäreje) (Kazakh), 테트레이션 (teteureisyeon) (Korean), टेट्रेशन (ṭeṭreśan) (Marathi), tetracja [feminine] (Polish), tetração [feminine] (Portuguese), tetrația (Romanian), тетра́ция (tetrácija) [feminine] (Russian), tetración [feminine] (Spanish), tetrering [common-gender] (Swedish), tetrasyon (Turkish), тетрація (tetracija) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-tetration-en-noun-52Mn3BgZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with tetra-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Albanian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Topics: arithmetic Coordinate_terms: addition, exponentiation, hexation, multiplication, pentation, succession, successor Coordinate_terms (addition, summation): + = (alt: augend) (english: addend; total), + +... = (alt: summand) (english: sum) Coordinate_terms (division; dividend): ÷ = (quotient) Coordinate_terms (exponentiation; base): = (alt: exponent) (english: power) Coordinate_terms (logarithmization): log(base) = (alt: antilogarithm) (english: logarithm) Coordinate_terms (multiplication, factorization; factor): × ×... = (english: factor; factor; product) Coordinate_terms (multiplication, factorization; multiplier): × = (multiplicand) (english: product) Coordinate_terms (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient): Or sometimes (alt: quotient) (english: with remaining) Coordinate_terms (root extraction; degree): √ = (radicand) [root] Coordinate_terms (subtraction): − = (subtrahend) (english: difference)

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          "text": "You don't ordinarily hear much about tetration because it is so powerful an operation that tetrating even very small numbers with each other produces inordinately large numbers. A tetration is worked out below.\n⁴²#x3D;2#x7B;(2#x7B;(#x7B;2²#x7D;)#x7D;)#x7D;\n #x3D;2#x7B;(#x7B;2⁴#x7D;)#x7D;\n #x3D;2#x7B;16#x7D;\n #x3D;64,536",
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          "text": "Repeated exponentiation—called tetration—is so rare that a shorthand for it is hardly worth the trouble, appealing only to research mathematicians. Most professional engineers and scientists never encounter tetration, and the shorthand for it is seldom taught anywhere but in mathematics departments. But it doesn't stop there, and for the almost-unheard-of \"multiple tetration\" there is yet a stronger cousin operation, waiting in the wings.",
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          "text": "Tetration is usually symbolized with a number drawn to the upper left of another number, as opposed to the upper right used for exponents. Let's look at an example: what is 2 tetrated to the 4th? We would draw this as a 2 with a little 4 to the upper left side: ⁴². This is equivalent to 2#x7B;2#x7B;2²",
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          "ref": "1982 May, Rudy Rucker, “All the Numbers”, in Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite, Boston, Mass.; Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg: Birkhäuser, →ISBN, page 69:",
          "text": "You don't ordinarily hear much about tetration because it is so powerful an operation that tetrating even very small numbers with each other produces inordinately large numbers. A tetration is worked out below.\n⁴²#x3D;2#x7B;(2#x7B;(#x7B;2²#x7D;)#x7D;)#x7D;\n #x3D;2#x7B;(#x7B;2⁴#x7D;)#x7D;\n #x3D;2#x7B;16#x7D;\n #x3D;64,536",
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          "ref": "1993, Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Joseph Maguire, “One”, in Zero to Lazy Eight: The Romance of Numbers, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 39:",
          "text": "Repeated exponentiation—called tetration—is so rare that a shorthand for it is hardly worth the trouble, appealing only to research mathematicians. Most professional engineers and scientists never encounter tetration, and the shorthand for it is seldom taught anywhere but in mathematics departments. But it doesn't stop there, and for the almost-unheard-of \"multiple tetration\" there is yet a stronger cousin operation, waiting in the wings.",
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          "ref": "2016, Erik Seligman, “Simple Surprises”, in Math Mutation Classics: Exploring Interesting, Fun and Weird Corners of Mathematics, New York, N.Y.: Apress, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "Tetration is usually symbolized with a number drawn to the upper left of another number, as opposed to the upper right used for exponents. Let's look at an example: what is 2 tetrated to the 4th? We would draw this as a 2 with a little 4 to the upper left side: ⁴². This is equivalent to 2#x7B;2#x7B;2²",
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetrimi"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tetracija",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "тетрация"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "超-4運算"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "超-4运算"
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      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetrace"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetration"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetratie"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "supereksponento"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetraatio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "tétration"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "tetración"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Tetration"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Potenzturm"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "טטרציה"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetráció"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetrasi"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tetrazione"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tetorēshon",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "テトレーション"
    },
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "tetrasiä",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "тетрация"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "giperdäreje",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "гипердәреже"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "teteureisyeon",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "테트레이션"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "ṭeṭreśan",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "टेट्रेशन"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "tetracja"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tetração"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetrația"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tetrácija",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "тетра́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "tetración"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "tetrering"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "tetrasyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tetracija",
      "sense": "arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation",
      "word": "тетрація"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tetration"
}

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