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.
A field is a set equipped with two binary operations, one called addition and the other called multiplication, denoted in the usual manner, which are both commutative and associative, both have identity elements (the additive identity denoted [math]0[/math] and the multiplicative identity denoted [math]1[/math]), addition has inverse elements (the ...