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.
The zero exponent rule is one of the rules that will help you simplify exponents. Let's first define some terms as they relate to exponents. When you have a number or variable raised to a power, the number (or variable) is called the base, while the superscript number is called the exponent, or power.
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.