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Definition of Exponents
1. exponent [n] - See also: exponent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exponents
Literary usage of Exponents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Scrap-book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays by William Frank White (1908)
"The definition of exponent found in the elementary algebras is sufficient for
the case to which it is applied -—the case in which the exponents are ..."
2. The Teaching of Mathematics in the Elementary and the Secondary School by Jacob William Albert Young (1906)
"They are definitions which we are led to set up in the particular form which is
customary, by the desire so to define these new types of exponents that the ..."
3. A Treatise on Algebra by Elias Loomis (1858)
"If we consider the exponents of the preceding powers, we shall find that they
follow a very simple law. Thus, ( of a are 2, 1,0, ..."
4. Elementary Algebra by John Henry Tanner (1904)
"Operations with polynomials involving fractional exponents. ... Moreover, since
fractional exponents obey the familiar laws formerly established for ..."
5. A College Algebra by George Albert Wentworth (1901)
"Positive Integral Exponents. If n is a positive integer, we have, ... In the case
of fractional and negative exponents, we proceed as follows : We assume ..."
6. Elements of Algebra by William Smyth (1830)
"THEORY OF Exponents OF ANY NATURE WHATEVER. 163. We have seen, art. 51, that with
respect to the same letter, division is performed by subtracting the ..."
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