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The only known powers of 2 with all digits even are 2 1 = 2, 2 2 = 4, 2 3 = 8, 2 6 = 64 and 2 11 = 2048. [12] The first 3 powers of 2 with all but last digit odd is 2 4 = 16, 2 5 = 32 and 2 9 = 512. The next such power of 2 of form 2 n should have n of at least 6 digits.
Powers of 2 appear in set theory, since a set with n members has a power set, the set of all of its subsets, which has 2 n members. Integer powers of 2 are important in computer science. The positive integer powers 2 n give the number of possible values for an n-bit integer binary number; for example, a byte may take 2 8 = 256 different values.
Exponential functions with bases 2 and 1/2 The base of an exponential function is the base of the exponentiation that appears in it when written as x → a b x {\displaystyle x\to ab^{x}} , namely b {\displaystyle b} . [ 6 ]
In mathematics, high superscripts are used for exponentiation to indicate that one number or variable is raised to the power of another number or variable. Thus y 4 is y raised to the fourth power, 2 x is 2 raised to the power of x, and the equation E = mc 2 includes a term for the speed of light squared.
In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two.That is, it is a prime number of the form M n = 2 n − 1 for some integer n.They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century.
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A double exponential function is a constant raised to the power of an exponential function. The general formula is () = = (where a>1 and b>1), which grows much more quickly than an exponential function. For example, if a = b = 10: f(x) = 10 10 x; f(0) = 10; f(1) = 10 10; f(2) = 10 100 = googol; f(3) = 10 1000