OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
This sequence represents the values of the base a such that a^^m, where ^^ indicates tetration or hyper-4 (e.g., 3^^4=3^(3^(3^3))), is characterized by a convergence speed at or above 2 (fast m-adic convergence). Only 26% of the positive integers belong to this list (see A317905).
REFERENCES
Marco Ripà, La strana coda della serie n^n^...^n, Trento, UNI Service, Nov 2011. ISBN 978-88-6178-789-6
LINKS
Marco Ripà, On the constant congruence speed of tetration, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, Volume 26, 2020, Number 3, pp. 245—260.
Marco Ripà, The congruence speed formula, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 2021, 27(4), 43-61.
Marco Ripà and Luca Onnis, Number of stable digits of any integer tetration, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 2022, 28(3), 441-457.
Wikipedia, Tetration
FORMULA
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,fini,full
AUTHOR
Marco Ripà, Oct 27 2018
STATUS
approved