Bell formula for iterated exponentiation

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Bell formula for iterated exponentiation - bo198214 - 08/26/2007

Gottfried Wrote:m=arbitrary, integer>0:
$\hspace{24} T^{\tiny(m)}_s(x)= \sum_{ k_m...k_1 =0..\infty \\ k_1+k_2+...+k_m=n } x^{k_m} * \left( k_{m-1}^{k_m} \dots k_2^{k_3} k_1^{k_2} \right) * \begin{pmatrix} n \\ k_2,k_3,...,k_m \end{pmatrix} * \frac{ log(s)^n}{n!} $

(hope I didn't make an index-error).
This formula can also be found in
E.T.BELL ,"The iterated Exponential Integers", Annals of Mathematics (193 $Cool$ p539-557

Are you sure Gottfried? I didnt find it in the mentioned article.

RE: Bell formula for iterated exponentiation - Gottfried - 08/26/2007

bo198214 Wrote:Are you sure Gottfried? I didnt find it in the mentioned article.

Too bad. I don't know, where my brain was... I had just skimmed through some articles and meant to have caught the source correctly. I'll seek, where I've actually have seen it, maybe in Abramowitsch/Stegun...
Anyway, it is easy to derive it with pen & paper.

I'll be back in the evening, going for a walk today -

Gottfried