User blog:Alemagno12/googology 4 dummies

Oh look, it's another one of those guides for beginner googologists! But this one isn't a long series of blog posts or a website or whatever. This one just explains the basic rules of Googology: if you understand and apply them, you can learn the rest (the major googological notations, methods to create googological notations, the major googologism families...) by searching for them on this wiki and studying them.

So, without further ado, here are the rules: [WIP]
 * 1) Don't try to create the largest number ever. Yet. Seriously, don't. Unless you're familiarized with set theories and how to extend them, you should NOT try to create the largest number yet.
 * 2) Don't use Infinity anywhere in your number/notation/etc. Googologists consider Infinity as ill-defined (without a proper definition), and if you're, say, making a number and it has Infinity on it, it will be ill-defined and won't count as a valid number. Numbers that never finish evaluating (for example, plugging something into the function f(x) = f(f(x)+1)) also count as Infinity.
 * 3) Make sure that, if you're making a notation or anything that uses that notation, it's well-defined. For a notation to be well-defined, it must have a well-defined output for all valid inputs.
 * 4) Finally, the most important rule of all, always zoom out. A beginner usually starts out with exponentiation as his/her strongest tool to make and understand the size of numbers. However, with tetration (repeated exponentiation), it becomes usueless, and so many people get stuck at the low levels of googology. But, if you manage to find the pattern and zoom out, you can understand tetration, and eventually, it will turn into a not-so-insanely-strong thing to you, like exponentiation was to you when you first began Googology. This rule is key to advancing to higher levels of Googology, and it's very important to follow it.