Mar 8, 2014 · Exponentiation is a correspondence between addition and multiplication. Think of a number line, with $0$ in the "middle", and tick marks at each integer. Moving a certain …

Oct 3, 2014 · You know, like addition is the inverse operation of subtraction, vice versa, multiplication is the inverse of division, vice versa , square is the inverse of square root, vice …

Nov 3, 2017 · I don't think you can intuitively understand complex exponentiation as a generalization of real exponentiation without first synthesizing an understanding of …

Dec 18, 2023 · I was wondering why addition has one inverse (subtraction), multiplication has one inverse (division), but exponentiation has two (radication and logarithm). After a bit of thinking, …

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Take the following: (2)^3 = 8 I understand that this is 2 * 2 * 2 = 8 My question is how do I reverse engineer this if I do not know the power like this: (2)^x = 8 What is the value of x? x could

May 21, 2018 · The logarithm can be defined independently of exponentiation by $\log x=\int_1^x\frac {1} {t}\,dt$; it is an increasing differentiable function, so its inverse $\exp$ is …

Sep 10, 2013 · We use multiplication for repeated addition, and in turn use exponents for repeated multiplication. What topic comes after this, for repeated exponentials? Is there …

Nov 20, 2015 · The original question seems to be asking the same thing (i.e. if exponentiation is the name of the operation, what is the name of the output). Having said that, one could easily …

Feb 3, 2015 · I was wondering, what is the order of operations when it comes to multi level exponents. Couldn't find anything in google. Something like: $$n^{n-1^{n-2^{\\cdots^1 ...