 | William Guy Peck - Arithmetic - 1877 - 430 pages
...jr-wer of a number. The operation of involution is also called raising to powers. RULE. Take the number as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the power. NOTE.— To raise a simple fraction to any power, raise each term separately to that... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1878 - 360 pages
...EXPONENTS. 34. An Exponent is a small figure, letter, or other symbol of number, written at the <ght and a little above another figure, letter, or symbol...Positive Fractional Exponent indicates a power of a root, cr a root of a power. The denominator specifies the root, and the numerator the power of the number... | |
 | Edward Olney - Algebra - 1878 - 516 pages
...of number, written at the right and a little above another figure, letter or symbol of number. 41. A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number...exponent. It is a kind of symbol of multiplication. ILL. 23, read, " 2, third power," signifies that two is to be taken three times as a factor, te, 2... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1878 - 258 pages
...There arc Three kinds of Exponents, viz., positive integral, positive fractional, and negative* 14'2. A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number...exponent. It is a kind of symbol of multiplication. How TO READ.— We have already learned about Positive Integral Exponents (8), and have now only to... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Algebra - 1879 - 350 pages
...power. This may be effected, as is evident from the definition of a power, by taking the given quantity as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. 182. When the quantity to be invoiced is positive, all the powers will be positive.... | |
 | Webster Wells - Algebra - 1879 - 468 pages
...may be effected, as is evident from the definition of a power (Art. 17), by taking the given quantity as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. 227. If the quantity to be involved is positive, the signs of all its powers... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1880 - 260 pages
...There are Three kinds of Exponents, viz., positive integral, positive fractional, and negative.* 1 42. A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number...by it is to be taken as a factor as many times as tl•ere are units in tlie exponent. It is a kind of symbol of multiplication. How TO READ. — We... | |
 | Webster Wells - Algebra - 1880 - 498 pages
...ab1 + P, and so on. Hence the following RULE. Multiply the polynomial by itself, until it has been taken as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent of the required power. EXAMPLES. Find the values of the following : 1. (a -b)». 3. (1 + a2 +62)8.... | |
 | Edward Olney - Algebra - 1881 - 504 pages
...symbol of number written at the right and a little above another figure, letter or symbol of number. 41. A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number...exponent. It is a kind of symbol of multiplication. Illustration. 2s (read, " 2, third power "), signifies that two is to be taken three times as a factor,... | |
 | Edward Olney - Algebra - 1881 - 254 pages
...There are Three kinds of Exponents, viz., positive integral, positive fractional, and negative.* 142. A Positive Integral Exponent signifies that the number...taken as a factor as many times as there are units in tJie exponent. It is a kind of symbol if multiplication. How TO READ.—We have already learned... | |
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To raise a whole number or a decimal to any power, use it as a factor as many times as there are units in the exponent. 
