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We see addition, multiplication and exponentiation in the natural formulae that make up physics.

However, do we ever see tetration (repeated exponentiation) or higher hyper-operators in nature?

(Not counting cases where the tetration step could be trivially eliminated.)

Qmechanic
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The "simple" functions you mentioned are often the result of solving "simple" (differential) equation. Repeated exponentiation is a very uncommen solution, however I do know of repeated exponentiation in formulae, often to scale dimensionless parameters.

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