Comic #2559: 2012-05-19

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Panel 1:
A character, an older man with gray hair, stands at a blackboard, teaching. The text on the board reads:
"Multiplication is repeated addition."
Below, there's an equation:
"2 × 3 = 2 + 2 + 2."

Panel 2:
The same man continues teaching, gesturing at another equation on the board:
"Exponentiation is repeated multiplication."
Next to it is an equation:
"2³ = 2 × 2 × 2."

Panel 3:
Another board shows:
"Tetration is repeated exponentiation."
There’s an equation:
"3² = 2²²."
A student, who looks surprised, asks:
"What's repeated tetration?"
A second character replies:
"Penetration."

Panel 4:
The surprised student responds:
"What? How is that possible?"
The first character, still calm, explains:
"Well, the next hyper-operator up is sextation. So, what is sextation?"

Panel 5:
The student, looking perplexed, says loudly:
"Repeated penet… WHOAAAA."