Googology Wiki:André Joyce archive/Googolminiation

Googolminiation is Andre Joyce's name for the mathematical operation, g(g(2, 50, 100) - 2, n, n) just below googolation, g(g(2, 50, 100) - 1, a, b). In Ackermann's Generalized Exponentialization notation, the operation is a number lower that the name implies. Tetration is indicated by a 3, pentation by a 4, and so on, so that it was necessary to differentiate googolation from the next higher operation, googolpliation, which was actually more easily represented in AGE, by adding the infix, -mini-, for "minus one". It is not to be confused with the higher operation googolmiation, g(g(2, 951, 1902), a, b).