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Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

Place the following numbers in increasing order of size, and justify your reasoning:
$3^{3^4},\ 3^{4^3},\ 3^{4^4},\ 4^{3^3} \text{ and } 4^{3^4}.$
Note that $a^{b^c}$ means $a^{(b^c)}$ .

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