tetration bending uniqueness ?

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so basicly my opinion is that this conjecture of mike is actually a rewording of some of my conjectures.

Tommy, keep cool.
I dont think Mike did steal that idea from you, but discovered it independently.
And then I never saw people arguing about whom had a *conjecture* first.
I rather think when someone else has the same conjecture then it could attract more investigation and in the end leading to a proof or disproof of the conjecture.

Which is imho is the interesting part: the proof, or the answer to the question.
I mean to ask questions/to utter conjectures is easy.
To ask good (with respect to fertility in the field) questions is a bit more difficult.
And really tough work is finding proofs/solving open problems.

So if you still consider it utmost important who first asked a question/uttered a conjecture, I have no problems attributing it to you (on this forum).
But much more I would like to attribute the first proof of that conjecture to you.