![]() ![]() All of these are acceptable and correct, but the simplest way, and the way you’ll hear exponents most commonly read, is “2 to the 4th”.īecause we use them so often, we have special names for the exponents 2 and 3. In other words, if you have 2^4, you could read that as “2 to the 4”, “2 to the power of 4”, “2 to the 4th”, “2 to the 4th power”, “2 raised to the 4”, “2 raised to the fourth power”, or “2 raised to the power of 4”. ![]() There are lots of different ways to read an exponent, but the basic template is “base to the power”. You’re always raising the base to the exponent. The big number on the bottom is called the “base”, and the little number in the corner is called the exponent. When you see an exponential function, you’ll see the larger number on the bottom, and then a little small number in the upper right-hand corner next to it. Exponents are just a shorthand way of indicating repeated multiplication of the same thing by itself. So exponents are also known as powers, and putting an exponent on something is the same as raising that something to a power. There’s no difference between exponents and powers. ![]()
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