User blog comment:Swooped me in one hit/my first attempt at creating notation./@comment-30118230-20170215174745/@comment-30754445-20170215184101

I told him to make a notation... after watching the first 6 parts of the David Meltzer video series.

So yeah, doing it a this early stage isn't ideal. But considering that the alternative was posting tons of unrelated numbers and asking "how big is that", it's a step forward. It may not be "ideal" but one can learn a lot from creating a notation and playing with it - even at this early stage.

And yes, it will be a bit "salady". So what? He can always polish it later.

Besides, I kinda like this "swoop's notation". 2-3-4-(5) = 2↑↑(1+125) = 2↑↑248833. Say what you will, I like it.

I do agree, though, that actually studying what others have done (knuth arrows are a good start) is better at this stage. That's why I asked Swooped what mathematics he knows. We don't want to bore him by explaining things he already knows, but one can't really progress much in googology without (for example) knowing what a function is.