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.
As nouns the difference between basis and base is that basis is a starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis while base is something from which other things extend; a foundation or base can be . As a verb base is to give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.