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The Importance of Comparing Power Functions

In J, they actually use infinity as the argument to the power function to keep looping. And when it converges, there's no change. But Q, I guess it also compares to the first value, but it doesn't compare to any of the values in the middle,. So like if you're running like the college conjecture where you can start at some number and go along the ways and eventually go into a cycle. Does it find that? Yeah, so that's, it seems like Jay's version is cleaner to me than the one where you compare to two values, but they're just kind of arbitrary. Well, they're arbitrary, but it's reasonable arbitrary.

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