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The other day I stumbled on an article [1] that advocated writing abasab and loga(b) as ab. This is a special case of Knuth's up arrow and down arrow notation. Knuth introduces his arrows with the intention of repeating them to represent hyperexponentiation and iterated logarithms. But the emphasis in [1] is more on the [...]The post Alternative exp and log notation first appeared on John D. Cook.