It can equal just about anything except 0.
For example:
(-2)-2 = 1/4
(-2)-3 = -1/8
(-0.5)-2 = 4
(-0.5)-3 = -8
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When a negative number is raised to an even power, the result is always positive. Therefore, (-1)^4 equals 1. This is because multiplying a negative number by itself an even number of times will always result in a positive value.
Exactly! -6 to the power of 2 means "-6 times -6". That's a negative times a negative, and the answer is positive 36.
it equals 1/25, or 0.04. A number to a negative power is the reciprocal of the number to that same positive power. x^(-y) = 1/(x^y)
a negative number
Five to the negative 7th power equals 0.0000128
It doesn't. Negative one to an even power equals positive one. Negative one to an odd power equals negative one.
Any number to the power of zero equals 1 50 = 1 120 = 1 13120 = 1 ...
positivetimes negative equals negative neg. times neg. equals pos. pos.pos. equals pos.
The result is a negative number in this case.
There is no answer - it is an error: negative numbers do not have logarithms. The log if a number tells to what power the (positive) base must be raised to get the number. Raising any positive number to any power will never result in a negative number, so it is an error to try and take the log of a negative number.
It does not. A negative number multiplied by a negative number equals a positive number.
Seven to the negative four power equals 0.00041649312