User blog comment:Swooped me in one hit/What books would you sugest are good for a starting googologist like myself./@comment-29310326-20170213205222/@comment-30754445-20170214133116

I second the recommendation of these videos, but disagree about the "parts 1-14" thing.

It is far better to learn each level seperately. Start with parts 1-2 (up arrows). Then come back here, and play with it until you master it.

Next, do part 3 (chain arrows). Master that one, and you've left Graham's Number in the dust.

Parts 4-7 seemingly go backwards to smaller numbers, but they give you a solid theoretical background for what will come later.

After watching part 6 (which gets you up to Graham level in a different way), I suggest you come back here to learn abou other notations that reach that level (BEAF up to {a,b,1,2}, Basic Hyper-E, Steinhaus-Moser Polygon notation, Letters E-K for integers only). This is probably the best time to start building your own personal notation, if you're into that kind of things

Part 7 gets you back to Conway-Arrows Level with new eyes. A brief pause here is probably recommended (coming back here for things like BEAF's {a,b,c,d} and the Letters L-N). But if you feel bold, feel free to continue directly to part 8.

The End of Part 8 is a major milestone. It gets you way beyond Conway-Arrows and up to completely new territory. In BEAF (which the videos don't cover) this is the level of arbitrarly long arrays (i.e. {a,b,c,d,e,...}). This is also the limit of my letter notation.

At this point, it would be a good idea to take a long break from the videos, and return your main focus here.