monotony for conway chains

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Let X and Y be chains, m and n be natural numbers with 0 < m < n. Is it always true that

$$X \rightarrow m \rightarrow Y < X \rightarrow n \rightarrow Y$$

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I need this to bound the following sequence :

First of all, $(a_n)$ is defined by

$$a_1 = 10\ ,\ a_{n+1} = 10 \uparrow ^{a_n} 10 \ for\ all \ n\ge1$$

I calculated the following bounds for $a_n$ :

$$ 10\rightarrow 10 \rightarrow (k-1) \rightarrow 2 < a_k < 10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow k \rightarrow 2$$

Are these bounds correct ?

The next step is to define

$$b_n = a_{10 \uparrow ^n 10}$$

The goal is to bound $b_{10 \uparrow \uparrow 10}$

To do this, I calculated

$$b_n = a_{10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow n} < 10\rightarrow 10 \rightarrow (10 \rightarrow 10\rightarrow n) \rightarrow 2 < 10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow (10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow n \rightarrow 3) \rightarrow 2 = 10\rightarrow 10\rightarrow (n+1) \rightarrow 3$$

But I am not sure if the second inequality is valid.

I continued

$$b_{10\uparrow \uparrow 10} < 10\rightarrow 10 \rightarrow [(10\rightarrow 10 \rightarrow 2)+1]\rightarrow 3 < 10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow (10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow 3) \rightarrow 3 < 10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow (10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow 3 \rightarrow 4) \rightarrow 3 = 10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow 4 \rightarrow 4$$

But again I am not sure if the inequalities are all valid. The result (if correct) would show the incredible magnitude of the number $10 \rightarrow 10 \rightarrow 4 \rightarrow 4$