 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1841 - 274 pages
...the result arising from multiplying the same into itself continually, until the number has been used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent denoting the power. Thus, to obtain the cube, or third power of 7, we must use it as a factor three... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1844 - 394 pages
...number, and is used to show the power to which the number is to be involved) The number is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. When no exponent is expressed, 1 is understood. The first power of a is - - - a, or a'. The second... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Algebra - 1846 - 374 pages
...number, and is used to show the power to which the number is to be involved. The number is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. When no exponent is expressed, 1 is understood. The first power of a is - - - a, or a > . The second... | |
 | William Vogdes - Arithmetic - 1847 - 324 pages
...little to the right, is called an exponent; as 32, 5s, and denotes that the quantity is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent, as 33=3x3x3=27. : is to ; : : so is ; : to ; the signs of proportion. v' or ^/ Signs of the square... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1848 - 252 pages
...243a'Vy10215. ART. 181. CASE ll. RAISE A POLYNOMIAL TO ANT POWER. RULE. Find the product of the quantity, taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the power. NOTE. — This rale, and that in the succeeding article, follow directly from the definition... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1848 - 250 pages
...be any number, as 2, 3, 4, and so on. Therefore, we may obtain nuy power of a quantity by talting it as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the power to which it is to be raised. This rule alone, is sufficient for every question in the... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1849 - 344 pages
...and 7, respectively. 7. An exponent placed over a quantity, denotes that the quantity is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. Thus, 2 4 =2x2x2x2 = 16. 8. When the exponent is 2 , the result is called the second power of the quantity... | |
 | Stephen Chase - Algebra - 1849 - 348 pages
...integral power of any quantity is by continued multiplication of the quantity by itself; taking it as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the power. Thus we have already found (§ 89) " (aH»)2 = (a+x)(ar\-x) = a So (a-|-a;)s = (a+x)... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1850 - 356 pages
...and 7, respectively. 7. An exponent placed over a quantity, denotes that the quantity is to be used as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. Thus, 24=2x2x2x2 = 16. 8. When the exponent is 2, the result is called the second power of the quantity... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1852 - 408 pages
...FOR RAISING A QUANTITY TO ANY REQUIRED POWER. — Multiply the given quantity by itself, until it is taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. REMAKE. — This rule is perfectly general, and applies either to monomials... | |
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A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number affected by it is to be taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. It is a kind of symbol of multiplication. Illustration. 2s (read, " 2, third power "), signifies that two... 
