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Two to the power of n, written as 2 n, is the number of in which the bits in a binary word of length n can be set, where each bit is either of two values. A word, interpreted as representing an integer in a range starting at zero, referred to an an 'unsigned integer', can represent values from 0 (000...000 2) to 2 n − 1 (111...111 2) inclusively.
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.
In mathematics and statistics, sums of powers occur in a number of contexts: . Sums of squares arise in many contexts. For example, in geometry, the Pythagorean theorem involves the sum of two squares; in number theory, there are Legendre's three-square theorem and Jacobi's four-square theorem; and in statistics, the analysis of variance involves summing the squares of quantities.
Some programming languages, such as Java [60] and J, [61] allow the programmer an explicit access to the positive and negative infinity values as language constants. These can be used as greatest and least elements , as they compare (respectively) greater than or less than all other values.
On the other hand, the function / cannot be continuously extended, because the function approaches as approaches 0 from below, and + as approaches 0 from above, i.e., the function not converging to the same value as its independent variable approaching to the same domain element from both the positive and negative value sides.
For n equal to 2 this is called the principal square root and the n is omitted. The nth root can also be represented using exponentiation as x 1/n. For even values of n, positive numbers also have a negative nth root, while negative numbers do not have a real nth root. For odd values of n, every negative number x has a real negative nth root.
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It is not known whether n q is rational for any positive integer n and positive non-integer rational q. [21] For example, it is not known whether the positive root of the equation 4 x = 2 is a rational number. [citation needed] It is not known whether e π or π e are rationals or not.