Base whose infinite power tower equals 2
Question
Suppose , an infinitely tall tower of exponents. What is ?
Short answer
. The exponent on the bottom is the whole tower again, so . One can check the tower converges, and to .
Adapted from Zhou, A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, sec. 2.2 Logic Reasoning, 'Infinite sequence', p.9; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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