section_path: History/15th–18th century/Introducing exponents
section_name: Introducing exponents
paragraph_text: Introducing exponents
  
  Nicolas Chuquet used a form of exponential notation in the 15th century, for example 12 to represent 12 x. This was later used by Henricus Grammateus and Michael Stifel in the 16th century. In the late 16th century, Jost Bürgi would use Roman numerals for exponents in a way similar to that of Chuquet, for example for 4 x.