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tag: 3E4MHN8VST
kind: concept
name: Conway chained arrow notation
aliases: [chained-arrow-notation, chained-arrow, conway-chain-arrow-notation, conway-chained-arrow, conways-chained-arrow-notation]
sources:
  - wikipedia: en:305456@r1363987467
    locator: Conway chained arrow notation
    note: adopted
    mention: wikipedia://en/305456
    sections: [Summary]
same_as:
  wikidata: Q180168
  wikipedia: Conway chained arrow notation
inventory: [X78NMD5NY7]
---

## Summary

**Conway chained arrow notation**, created by mathematician John Horton Conway, is a means of expressing certain extremely large numbers. It is simply a finite sequence of positive integers separated by rightward arrows, e.g. $2\to3\to4\to5\to6$.