Akhenaten (/ËÃ¦kÉËnÉËtÉn/; also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, Ikhnaton, and Khuenaten; meaning Effective for Aten) known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV (sometimes given its Greek form, Amenophis IV, and meaning Amun Is Satisfied), was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in ...
An exponent is something that raises a number or a variable to a power. It is a process of repeated multiplication. For example, the expression means to multiply 2 times itself 3 times or. In, the 2 is called the base and the 3 is called the exponent. Both the base and the exponent can be either a number or a variable. Each of the following is an example of an exponential expression. When both the base and the exponent are numbers, we can evaluate the expression as we did with.
The exponent, being 3 in this example, stands for however many times the value is being multiplied. The thing that's being multiplied, being 5 in this example, is called the base. This process of using exponents is called raising to a power, where the exponent is the power. The expression 53 is pronounced as five, raised to the third power or five to the third.