(10/23/2009, 09:27 PM)Base-Acid Tetration Wrote: Is it me, or will pentation indeed look a lot like tetration in the complex plane?Well, if by "look like" you mean it will have 2 branchcuts (\( -1.6 \pm 1.33i \)) instead of 1 branchcut (-2), and 4 primary fixedpoints instead of 3 primary fixedpoints, then yes.
Below is a complex plot of \( \text{pexp}(z) - z \), and even though there is a bit of double-vision, it is clear that there are 4 fixedpoints near the origin.

