[Fhsst-authors] Re: [Fhsst-admin-priv] Re: Free High School Science Texts

[Sam Halliday]

Peter Hutnick wrote:
> Exponentiation is just a special case of multiplication.

actually... exponentiation was brought in as a way for people to be able
to add numbers without having to multiply them :-) (adding exponents
instead of multiplying the values themselves)

cheers,
Sam
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