It’s been a few years since I heard this pronounced aloud, but my old undergrad prof’s pronunciation of “3^^^3” was “3 hyper5 3″. The “hyper5” part refers to the fact that three up-arrows is pentation. Similarly, “x^^y” is “x hyper4 y”, because two up-arrows indicate tetration.
In general, add 2 to the number of up-arrows, and that’s the hyper number you’d use.
(I should mention that I’ve never heard it used by anyone other than him, so it might have been just his way of saying it, as opposed to the way of saying it.)
Thanks to everyone for all the answers. I’d say this one makes the most sense to me—pretty quick to say and easily scalable for any number—but I guess there’s just not one, well-accepted convention.
It’s been a few years since I heard this pronounced aloud, but my old undergrad prof’s pronunciation of “3^^^3” was “3 hyper5 3″. The “hyper5” part refers to the fact that three up-arrows is pentation. Similarly, “x^^y” is “x hyper4 y”, because two up-arrows indicate tetration.
In general, add 2 to the number of up-arrows, and that’s the hyper number you’d use.
(I should mention that I’ve never heard it used by anyone other than him, so it might have been just his way of saying it, as opposed to the way of saying it.)
Thanks to everyone for all the answers. I’d say this one makes the most sense to me—pretty quick to say and easily scalable for any number—but I guess there’s just not one, well-accepted convention.