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If you are OK with a sum constants times powers of two, would you be ok with other hyperoperations on two?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperoperation

I wonder if it would be helpful to restrict the question a bit, maybe something like: what is the largest number for which the number, and also all smaller magnitude integers, can be expressed.



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