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What is 5 to the nth power mean?

Updated: 10/25/2022
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Assuming that "n" is a positive integer, it means that you multiply the number 5 repeatedly with itself - the number 5, in this case, appears a total of "n" times as a factor. For example, if n = 4, 5n = 54 = 5 x 5 x 5 x 5. That is, the number 5 appears 4 times as a factor.

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