User blog comment:Mh314159/new YIP notation/@comment-39585023-20190714235606/@comment-39585023-20190720150504

No, PBot, you were very kind and encouraging and I appreciate your honest evaluations and criticism and everything I learned from you. You have my respect. I still find numerical functions interesting, but now that I know how difficult it is to reach and to appreciate the magnitude of high ordinals I am losing interet in trying to reach them. But I still like numbers. Just like I find chess and shogi interesting, but I know that I will never be Magnus Carlsen or Yoshiharu Habu. After all, even Graham's number is too big for the human mind to imagine. We can only imagine the process that generates it, not the number itself, and I guess for me that is where my enjoyment ends; when I can no longer even imagine the process, it is no longer interesting to me, although of course the interest continues from the point of view of those who love formal mathematics. So I have contented myself to make a "small" number system, based on my previous favorite, the vertical line function, and using things I learned from you during my other attempts. It does not reach high ordinals, but it goes past Knuth Up-Arrows and Steinhaus/Moser and Graham's number and Conway chains. It is easy to write and fun to recurse and think about, at least at my level. Maybe I'll come back and post it when I'm done. Thank you.