User blog comment:Sbiis Saibian/The Great Googology Census of 2016/@comment-12.144.5.30-20160131174134

L.E. here...continuing to focus study on really large numbers (illions and otherwise) rather than the piddling Kasnerisms.

I may be redefining the popble soon to eliminate the "lazy raise" first step of the cycle,which emulates a measly Steinhaus triangle and doesn't increase in operational complexity with each cycle.Substituting an ultrex of n (n u's) n makes it a lot stronger.Step 1 is outside the point-polygon-blast sequence that the name comes from anyway.

While Bowers said that 2 popbled is easily more than a gongulus even with 4^^^^4 as the first Knuth phase number,changing the 2^2 to 2 uu 2 means the first Knuth phase number becomes 2 u 65536 (2 u 65536 up-arrows) 2 u 65536,the first Conway phase number expands to fit,and so on.And after the first Bowers phase number completes the first cycle,instead of just being raised to itself to get what you plug into the second Knuth phase number,it gets ultrexed with (itself) u's to itself.