Fast growing function Aside from the power, gamma, exponential functions are there any other very fast growing functions in (semi-) regular use?

It depends on what you mean by "in use"; the Busy Beaver function, which grows strictly faster than any sequence produceable by a Turing machine, is sometimes used in theoretical results in computability although only the first four terms are actually known. I'm not sure if it's the sort of thing you're looking for.