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  2. Exponentiation - Wikipedia

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    Graphs of y = b x for various bases b: base 10, base e, base 2, base ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠. Each curve passes through the point (0, 1) because any nonzero number raised to the power of 0 is 1. At x = 1, the value of y equals the base because any number raised to the power of 1 is the number itself.

  3. Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for specific exponents

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    Since u = 2m 2 = 2de, and since d and e are coprime, they must be squares themselves, d = g 2 and e = h 2. This gives the equation v = d 2 − e 2 = g 4 − h 4 = k 2. The solution (g, h, k) is another solution to the original equation, but smaller (0 < g < d < x). Applying the same procedure to (g, h, k) would produce another solution, still ...

  4. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    While base ten is normally used for scientific notation, powers of other bases can be used too, [25] base 2 being the next most commonly used one. For example, in base-2 scientific notation, the number 1001 b in binary (=9 d) is written as 1.001 b × 2 d 11 b or 1.001 b × 10 b 11 b using binary numbers (or shorter 1.001 × 10 11 if binary ...

  5. Square (algebra) - Wikipedia

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    Squaring is the same as raising to the power 2, and is denoted by a superscript 2; for instance, the square of 3 may be written as 3 2, which is the number 9. In some cases when superscripts are not available, as for instance in programming languages or plain text files, the notations x ^2 ( caret ) or x **2 may be used in place of x 2 .

  6. Exponentiation by squaring - Wikipedia

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    x 1 = x; x 2 = x 2 for i = k - 2 to 0 do if n i = 0 then x 2 = x 1 * x 2; x 1 = x 1 2 else x 1 = x 1 * x 2; x 2 = x 2 2 return x 1 The algorithm performs a fixed sequence of operations ( up to log n ): a multiplication and squaring takes place for each bit in the exponent, regardless of the bit's specific value.

  7. Binary prefix - Wikipedia

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    A binary prefix is a unit prefix that indicates a multiple of a unit of measurement by an integer power of two.The most commonly used binary prefixes are kibi (symbol Ki, meaning 2 10 = 1024), mebi (Mi, 2 20 = 1 048 576), and gibi (Gi, 2 30 = 1 073 741 824).

  8. Sixth power - Wikipedia

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    ) 2 and (3 3) 2, respectively) In arithmetic and algebra the sixth power of a number n is the result of multiplying six instances of n together. So: n 6 = n × n × n × n × n × n. Sixth powers can be formed by multiplying a number by its fifth power, multiplying the square of a number by its fourth power, by cubing a square, or by squaring a ...

  9. nth root - Wikipedia

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    1 6. 1 2 4 3 / \/ 004 192.000 000 000 ... In 1837 Pierre Wantzel proved that an nth root of a given length cannot be constructed if n is not a power of 2.