It was the end; coma was coming; the mind was departing with the breath. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Emile Zola It was not long before they were reduced to a coma of hunger.
An exponent is a quantity representing the power to which some other quantity is raised. Exponents do not have to be numbers or constants; they can be variables. They are often positive whole number s, but they can be negative number s, fractional number s, irrational number s, or complex number s.
Root notation from lesson twenty-one. The important feature here is the root index. Remember the root index tells us how many times our answer must be multiplied with itself to yield the radicand. A fractional exponent is an alternate notation for expressing powers and roots together. For example, the following are equivalent. We write the power in numerator and the index of the root in the denominator. If there is no power being applied, write â1â in the numerator as a placeholder.