exponent
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5.1
- noun
- /ɪkˈspoʊnənt/
- Specialized
:
exponente
- When calculating powers, you need to know that the exponent indicates how many times to use the base number.
- exponent underflow
- exponent overflow
- scaling exponent
Because when you multiply these, you add the exponents, right?
- Because when you multiply these, you add the exponents, right?
- It has a Google zeros if what's in the exponent is how many zeros you have, right?
- How am I going to get this off the exponent, right, Yes.
- And then we'll look at if you have an exponential type, so the limit as X goes to Infinity of E to some negative variable exponents.
Examples
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The hex extended format has two sign bits and two exponent fields, which differ by 14.
Academic text (1999) -
Because when you multiply these, you add the exponents, right?
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The logarithm is the exponent C * X.
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We take one and we add it to the exponent, so it'll be X.
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So, everybody clear on applying rules of exponents?
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And for anyone who's ever studied an exponent, things double and then they double again, and that doesn't seem very much.
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The fraction of the operand with the smaller exponent is aligned to the operand with the larger exponent.
Academic text (1999) -
A denormalized floating-point number is a tiny number whose exponent is smaller than the smallest representable exponent.
Academic text (1999) -
Such power-law relationships, with fractional exponents, often indicate underlying self-similar structures or mechanisms.
Academic text (2002) -
In the equation 3^4, the exponent shows that 3 is multiplied by itself four times.
Synonyms
51
5.8
Number that shows how many times to multiply a number by itself
12
7.1
A small number written above a number that shows how many times to multiply it by itself
Surface Forms
Morphology
exponent = ex + ponent + ent
Although formed from recognisable bound elements (ex- + -ent), the root 'ponent' is not a standalone English word and the mathematical sense is specialized, so learners cannot derive the meaning from the parts alone.
Etymology
Exponent comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and ponere 'to put', the same root you can see in position. Think of an exponent as the small number 'put out' above and to the right of a base that tells how many times to multiply.