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Yes, you can, but it starts getting complicated. You can, for example have a number raised to an exponent that is itself a number raised to an exponent, or you can have a number raised to an exponent and the result raised to another exponent.

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What is zero exponent?

If a number (other than 0) has 0 as an exponent, it equals 1! It may be hard to believe but it is true, no matter what number. If a number has no exponent, there is basically an invisible 1 as the exponent, so the number would be equal to itself. Zero with the exponent zero is meaningless.


What is an irrational exponent?

It means that it is an exponent, and that it is not a rational number - i.e., one that can be written as a fraction of two integers.


When you raise a number to the power with the exponent one half you get its?

principle square root


In Algebra what is exponent?

One way to view the exponent, especially when it is a natural number, is how many times something need to be multiplied by itself. So 4^5 has exponent 5 and base 4 and it means 4 multiplied by itself 5 times, ie 4x4x4x4x4 We can then extent this to negative integers and to an exponent of zero and then to rational exponents. More on that if you want to know.


What are the rules in changing scientific notation to standard notation and standard notation to scientific notation?

To convert a number to scientific notation, move the decimal point right or left to make the number greater than or equal to one but less than ten, and record the number of positions moved as a power of 10 - the exponent. That is, if the decimal point moves to the left by n positions, then the exponent is 10n. If the decimal point moved to the right by npositions, the exponent is 10-n (note the minus symbol).For instance, the number 123,456,000,000 is larger than 10, so we move the decimal point 11 positions to the left to get 1.23456, which is greater than or equal to one, but less than ten. Since we moved the decimal point to the left by 11 positions, the exponent is 1011 (ten raised to the eleventh power, which is 100,000,000,000) so the scientific notation for 123,456,000,000 becomes 1.23456x1011.If the original number were 0.000000123456, we need to move the decimal point to the right by seven positions to get 1.23456 (greater than or equal to one but less than ten). The exponent is therefore 10-7, thus the scientific notation for 0.000000123456 is 1.23456x10-7.To convert from scientific notation to standard notation, we simply reverse the process. If the exponent is a positive power of 10, we multiply by the exponent. Thus 1.23456x1011 is 1.23456 x 100,000,000,000 which is 123,456,000,00. If the exponent is a negative power of 10, we divide by the exponent. Thus 1.23456x10-7 is 1.23456 / 10,000,000 which is 0.000000123456.Note that scientific notation is only useful when you are not interested in the least significant portion of a number. For instance, a value such as 123,456,789,123,456,789,123,456,789 is better notated in full if you want the highest degree of accuracy. Scientific notation is generally only used to make the notation of an extremely large (or extremely small) number more concise. So 123,456,789,123,456,789,123,456,789 might be reduced to a more concise form such as 1.23456789x1026. This then equates to 123,456,790,000,000,000,000,000,000 in standard notation, which is clearly not the same value we started out with. In other words, the degree of accuracy is determined by the number of decimal places you retain in the scientific notation.

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What number of digits when 10 to the 23th power that written in full?

24: the number of digits is always one more than the exponent of 10 if the exponent is positive.


Is there a number with more than one power?

Yes. 1 can have any exponent, and will always be equal to 1. And -1 can have any odd exponent, and will always be equal to -1.


What is the exponent of zero is?

no exponent can make a number equal to zero, however any number with an exponent of zero is one.


What is zero exponent?

If a number (other than 0) has 0 as an exponent, it equals 1! It may be hard to believe but it is true, no matter what number. If a number has no exponent, there is basically an invisible 1 as the exponent, so the number would be equal to itself. Zero with the exponent zero is meaningless.


HOW DO convert scientific notation to decimalnumbers?

The exponent tells you how many spaces to move the decimal, remember to add zeros as needed. If the exponent is negative make it a decimal number less than one by moving the decimal to the left. If the exponent is positive make the decimal number greater than one by moving the decimal to the right.


What are the rules of changing number to Scientific notation?

Move the decimal until there is one nonzero digit to the left of the decimal counting the spaces that you move the decimal. That number of spaces becomes the exponent of 10. The exponent is positive if the original number was greater than 10, but is negative if the original number is less than one.


What is an irrational exponent?

It means that it is an exponent, and that it is not a rational number - i.e., one that can be written as a fraction of two integers.


Is 13 an exponent?

Not sure what you're asking. Any number can be an exponent, like 1013, where 13 would be the exponent in this case. If you were given the number 13, and asked what the exponent was, the answer would be one (1), since any number to the 1 power equals that number, so 131 = 13, if no exponent is given then it is assumed to be one (1).


What does a negative exponent mean used in scientific notation?

That indicates a decimal; a number less than one.


Can the number one be an exponent?

Sure. It may not be very useful to use 1 but any number is eligible to be an exponent.


Can you get zero using exponents?

No. Even a number with an exponent of zero equals one. There is no way an exponent on a number will make it zero.


What does 6 with an exponent of 0 equal?

Any number with an exponent of zero is equal to one. 60 = 1