Pentation

Pentation is a mathematical operation that is part of the family of hyperoperations, which extend beyond exponentiation. Hyperoperations are defined in a sequence where each operation is one rank higher than the previous one, starting from addition, multiplication, exponentiation, and moving on to tetration and beyond. The sequence is as follows: 1. Addition (a + b) 2. Multiplication (a × b) 3. Exponentiation (a^b) 4.