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March 13, 2012
Tuesday, March 13
Pizza Seminar
Time: 16:30
Speaker: Seymour Ditor (Western)
Title: "Infinite Exponentials"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: When does an "infinite tower of exponentials" converge? To clarify, for positive real numbers a,b, let us set Ea(x)=ax, and E(a,b,,c)=EaEbEc(1), so E(a)=a, E(a,b)=ab, E(a,b,c)=abc. The question then is: for what sequences {an} of positive real numbers does the sequence {E(a1,,an)} converge?