 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1879 - 350 σελίδες
...power. This may be effected, as is evident from the definition of a power, by taking the given quantity as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. 182. When the quantity to be invoiced is positive, all the powers will be positive.... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1879 - 468 σελίδες
...may be effected, as is evident from the definition of a power (Art. 17), by taking the given quantity as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. 227. If the quantity to be involved is positive, the signs of all its powers... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1880 - 354 σελίδες
...of number.* 35. A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number affected by it is to be taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. It is a kind of symbol of multiplication. 36. A Positive Fractional Exponent indicates a power of a... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1881 - 504 σελίδες
...of number. 41. A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number affected by it is to be taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. It is a kind of symbol of multiplication. Illustration. 2s (read, " 2, third power "), signifies that... | |
 | William James Milne - 1881 - 360 σελίδες
...-f- y. The process is simply to use x -\- y as a factor three times. RULE. — Use the given quality as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. 2. Find the second power of (a + 6). 3. Find the second power of (a + 1). 4.... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1882 - 358 σελίδες
...of number.* 35. A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number affected by it is to be taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. It is a kind of symbol of multiplication. 36. A Positive Fractional Exponent indicates a power of a... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Rickoff - 1886 - 688 σελίδες
...involution is a process of simple multiplication ; therefore no rule is necessary, except that the root is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. Raise the following numbers to the powers indicated: 1. 17s 4. 388 7. 123 10.... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Rickoff - 1888 - 464 σελίδες
...involution is a process of simple multiplication ; therefore no rule is necessary, except that the root is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. Raise the following numbers to the powers indicated: 1. 17 3 4. 382 7. 12 3... | |
 | 1888 - 492 σελίδες
...positive whole number is used as the exponent of a quantity, it indicates that the quantity is taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. But when the exponent is negative or fractional, it can have no such meaning. It is necessary, therefore,... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - 1888 - 868 σελίδες
...6) or (a — b). Hence the following RULE. Multiply the binomial by itself, until it has been taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. This rule, however, would be very laborious in finding any high power, for instance... | |
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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. 
