User blog comment:Vel!/Googology and well-defined-ness/@comment-83.237.170.16-20141017233503

Depends on where we put the boundary.

Consider (it's a real example, though I'm paraphrasing slightly) a description such as this: "the n-th term of the sequence 1, 2^2, 3^3^3, 4^4^4^4, 5^5^5^5^5..." which never uses the word "tetration" or the formula n^^n, and expects the reader to figure it out. Would that be grade A, or grade B?

What if this was used then as a starting point in a larger calculation, which other than the starting sequence was completely precise and unambiguous? If you put it as B originally, would that merit an upgrade back to A?

Once we get that far, I can almost understand Icosaract's comment below that "we should not have grade A googology",