Power. It is the number of times you use the base as a factor in a multiplication problem.
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turn the positive number into its recipricol and the put the number of the negative number on the top
exponents are the little numbers on top of a big number. It means you have to mulitply that number by itself that many times. if the exponent is 6, and the number is 8, you have to do 8 times 8 6 times. 86 That small number six is that exponent.
no exponent can make a number equal to zero, however any number with an exponent of zero is one.
A number to a negative exponent is the inverse of the number to the positive exponent. That is, x-a = 1/xa
The square of a number can be represented by writing the number with an exponent of 2, whereas the square root of the number is represented by writing the number with an exponent of 1/2.