exponential notation

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We say 23 is in exponential notation and 2 · 2 · 2 is in expanded notation.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

In general, the exponential notation means that the number or variable is used as a factor times.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

When using the power rule, a term in exponential notation is raised to a power.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

We have already seen some real number examples of exponential notation, a shorthand method of writing products of the same factor.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

Though he didn’t have exponential notation, he invented something comparable, and his calculations were essentially equivalent to the following.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos