 | George Roberts Perkins - 1841 - 274 σελίδες
...number, a little to the right, is called an exponent. Thus, 6 2 , 7 3 , in these expressions, 2 and 8 are exponents of 6 and 7 respectively. 7. An exponent...to be used as a factor as many times as there are traits in the exponent. Thus, 2 4 =2X2X2X2=16. S. When the exponent is two, the result is called the... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1844 - 394 σελίδες
...little above the number, and is used to show the power to which the number is to be involved) The number is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. When no exponent is expressed, 1 is understood. The first power of a is - - - a, or a'. The second... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1846 - 374 σελίδες
...little above the number, and is used to show the power to which the number is to be involved. The number is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. When no exponent is expressed, 1 is understood. The first power of a is - - - a, or a > . The second... | |
 | William Vogdes - 1847 - 324 σελίδες
...A number placed above another number, a little to the right, is called an exponent; as 32, 5s, and denotes that the quantity is to be used as a factor...as many times as there are units in the exponent, as 33=3x3x3=27. : is to ; : : so is ; : to ; the signs of proportion. v' or ^/ Signs of the square... | |
 | Joseph Ray - 1848 - 250 σελίδες
...2 ART. 1*1. CASE II. RAISE A POLYNOMIAL TO ANY POWER. RULE. Find the product of the quantity, taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the power. NOTE. — This rule, and that in the succeeding article, follow directly from the definition... | |
 | Stephen Chase - 1849 - 348 σελίδες
...integral power of any quantity is by continued multiplication of the quantity by itself; taking it as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the power. Thus we have already found (§ 89) " (aH»)2 = (a+x)(ar\-x) = a So (a-|-a;)s = (a+x)... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - 1850 - 356 σελίδες
...number to be the result arising from multiplying it into itself continually, until the number has been used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent denoting the power. Thus, to obtain the cube, or third power of 7, we must use it as a factor three... | |
 | Joseph Ray - 1852 - 408 σελίδες
...RAISING A QUANTITY TO ANY REQUIRED POWER. — Multiply the given quantity by itself, until it is taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. REMAKE. — This rule is perfectly general, and applies either to monomials... | |
 | Charles D. Lawrence - 1854 - 336 σελίδες
...that a number may be involved to any required power, by the following RULE. Employ the given number as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent which denotes the required power, and the product of these equal factors, is the power sought. EXAMPLES.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1857 - 452 σελίδες
...exponent of each power raised. Hence the RULE. — Multiply the given number into itself, till it has been used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the power to which the number is to be raised. NOTE 1. — The number of multiplications will always... | |
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To raise a whole number or a decimal to any power, use it as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. 
