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 distance to …

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, I …

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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 versa. What's the in...

May 21, 2018 · When rigorously laying out foundations of all of analysis, the usual method is to use the definition $$ a^b = \exp (b \log (a)) $$ While you could try and define exponentiation directly, it is …

May 27, 2024 · I was taught my whole life that if I want to get rid of a root I should just do the inverse and ''exponentiate that with its index'' and now I just learn that roots aren't the inverse of …

Mar 13, 2012 · Modular exponentiation by repeated squaring (and peasant multiplication] Ask Question Asked 13 years, 9 months ago Modified 7 months ago

23 Some tricks which are useful for modular exponentiation The intention of this post is to collect various tricks which can sometimes simplify computations of this type. (Especially when done by hand and …

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 identify …

Jun 21, 2021 · I also would like to know who defined exponentiation for these cases and in which paper. --- FYI, elementary things like this from well before the last hundred years or so often have such …