User blog comment:Vel!/Redefining number classes/@comment-99.185.0.100-20150805233951

"It's a really big number. You see, you start with a 100-dimensional hypercube with side length 10 that's full of tens, and you solve it with—oh, wait, I haven't explained that. Well, you have addition, and then multiplication, and exponentiation, now exponentiation is repeated multiplication, and multiplication is repeated addition, so repeated exponentiation is level-2 exponentiation, repeated level-2 exponentiation is level-3, and so on and then..."