Exponential Form: Exponentiation is a mathematical operation, written as , involving two numbers, the base
and the exponent
. When
is a positive integer, exponentiation corresponds to repeated multiplication of the base: that is
, is the product of multiplying
bases:
In that case,, is called the
power of
, or
raised to the power
.
When is a negative integer and
is not zero,
is naturally defined as
Note:
Let be any non-zero real number and
and
be positive integers:
If , then
, provided
and