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From Dan Meyer (via email):

Which is bigger: \(60^{63}\) or \(63^{60}\)?

The beauty of this problem is that both sides are beyond the capability of a TI-84 so a reduction of some kind is called for. wolframalpha.com has no difficulty but the answer is startling.


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