Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of raising a quantity to a power.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of affecting with an exponent or index.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics, arithmetic, uncountable The process of calculating a
power by multiplying together a number of equal factors, where theexponent specifies the number of factors to multiply. - noun mathematics, arithmetic, countable A mathematical
problem involving exponentiation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
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Examples
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So in the special case when the order of is a power of 2, we can compute the order using only on exponentiation, which is computationally feasible for the orders of magnitude we are considering.
What's new 2008
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Here in one lovely equation are the five most important numbers in all of mathematics, and the three most fundamental operators: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
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Here in one lovely equation are the five most important numbers in all of mathematics, and the three most fundamental operators: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
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Here in one lovely equation are the five most important numbers in all of mathematics, and the three most fundamental operators: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
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Here in one lovely equation are the five most important numbers in all of mathematics, and the three most fundamental operators: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
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Here in one lovely equation are the five most important numbers in all of mathematics, and the three most fundamental operators: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
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Here in one lovely equation are the five most important numbers in all of mathematics, and the three most fundamental operators: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
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So off I go to Google largest numbers and we are learning about googol, googolplex, Graham's number, large number notation, exponentiation, tetration.
If I'da known you were comin', I'da baked a CAKE! Sissie 2009
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I actually put a caret up-arrow there to indiciate exponentiation.
A peer-reviewed article that supports ID . . . or something else - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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So off I go to Google largest numbers and we are learning about googol, googolplex, Graham's number, large number notation, exponentiation, tetration.
Archive 2009-03-01 Sissie 2009
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