| Description: Define the ordinal
exponentiation operation.
 
       This definition is similar to a conventional definition of
       exponentiation except that it defines   ↑o   to be   for all
            , in order to avoid having different
cases for whether the
       base is   or not.
 
       We do not yet have an extensive development of ordinal exponentiation.
       For background on ordinal exponentiation without excluded middle, see
       Tom de Jong, Nicolai Kraus, Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, and Chuangjie Xu
       (2025), "Ordinal Exponentiation in Homotopy Type Theory",
       arXiv:2501.14542 , https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14542
which is
       formalized in the TypeTopology proof library at
       https://ordinal-exponentiation-hott.github.io/.
 
       (Contributed by Mario Carneiro, 4-Jul-2019.)  |