Math question (DBO)

by Quirel, Sunday, November 22, 2015, 19:32 (3071 days ago) @ Funkmon

I never got far enough in math to learn this stuff on my own. I was briefly introduced to that once by a math grass student in a physics class. My question that he couldn't answer, and that I can't answer myself after checking the wikipedia page, is why not just use exponents?

I'm not sure myself. I think it might have a lot to do with computing, since Donald Knuth is a computer scientist and specialized in computational algorithms. Or it might simply be more intuitive to read or type with a keyboard.

Once you understand the system, 3(Arrow)(Arrow)4 is a lot easier to grasp than 3^7625597484987.