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Exponentiation with negative exponents is defined by the following identity, which holds for any integer n and nonzero b: =. [1] Raising 0 to a negative exponent is undefined but, in some circumstances, it may be interpreted as infinity (). [22]
If exponentiation is indicated by stacked symbols using superscript notation, the usual rule is to work from the top down: [2] [7] a b c = a (b c) which typically is not equal to (a b) c. This convention is useful because there is a property of exponentiation that (a b) c = a bc, so it's unnecessary to use serial exponentiation for this.
An irrational fraction is one that contains the variable under a fractional exponent. [12] An example of an irrational fraction is / / /. The process of transforming an irrational fraction to a rational fraction is known as rationalization.
Unit fractions can also be expressed using negative exponents, as in 2 −1, which represents 1/2, and 2 −2, which represents 1/(2 2) or 1/4. A dyadic fraction is a common fraction in which the denominator is a power of two, e.g. 1 / 8 = 1 / 2 3 . In Unicode, precomposed fraction characters are in the Number Forms block.
The n th root of x is written as using the radical symbol. The square root is usually written without the n as just . Taking the nth root of a number is the inverse operation of exponentiation, [1] and can be written as a fractional exponent:
Exponentiation is an arithmetic operation in which a number, known as the base, is raised to the power of another number, known as the exponent. The result of this operation is called the power. Exponentiation is sometimes expressed using the symbol ^ but the more common way is to write the exponent in superscript right after the
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Using the preceding decomposition inductively one gets fractions of the form , with < = , where G is an irreducible polynomial. If k > 1 , one can decompose further, by using that an irreducible polynomial is a square-free polynomial , that is, 1 {\displaystyle 1} is a greatest common divisor of the polynomial and its derivative .