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Exponentiation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Mathematics The act of raising a quantity to a power.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors, where the exponent specifies the number of factors to multiply.

n. A mathematical problem involving exponentiation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of affecting with an exponent or index.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power

Word Usage

"So in the special case when the order of is a power of 2, we can compute the order using only on exponentiation, which is computationally feasible for the orders of magnitude we are considering."

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