1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256..

Re:1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256.. by MaxScheiber on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @06:16PM (#7147830)

While bored in middle school algebra, I figured out on my TI-30 which number, raised to itself as a power, would equal 9.9999999E99 (not sure on the precise number of nines after the decimal point, but basically it flooded the screen with all nines).

56.96124843225 ^ 56.96124843225

Wolfram confirms that it's pretty close to a full googol. Of course, you can keep adding digits to the end of the number to make it even more precise. Maybe I'll write a script to do that.

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Re:1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256.. by nitrogen on Thursday January 30, 2014 @01:01AM (#7149276)

I was wondering if there was an inverse operation for tetration, and it turns out there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration#Square_super-root (what you're basically finding is 56.96124843225⇈1, which is apparently ssrt(1googol))

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