What does indicate mean in math?

Answer 1

'shown'

'displayed'

'pointed to'

'printed in red'

'printed in heavy bold letters'

'printed in italics'

'with the arrow pointing to it'

'printed bigger than everything else around it'

'printed in some way so that it's the first thing you notice'

Answer 2

Its another way of saying exponent

example:

22=2*2

x5/2 = x*x*squareroot(x)

e2x = exex