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UKMT Senior Kangaroo, 2022

Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

A sequence is given by $x_1 = 2$ , $x_{n+1} = \frac{x_n^{x_n}}{32^{n-1}}$ . What is $\frac{x_4}{128}$ ?

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