Another way to formulate the same question is: is there any technical name for what only numbers 1, 4, 27, 256, 3125 etc. are?
2007-12-31 03:05:04 · 5 answers · asked by Nh4ClO4 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
To the best of my knowledge, there is no general technical term for a^a, aside from "a to the ath power" or "a to the power a."
2007-12-31 11:08:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a to the power of a
1 squared
2 squared
3 cubed
4 to the power of 4
5 to the power of 5
2007-12-31 03:16:30 · answer #2 · answered by Robert S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - a^a means "a to the power of a" - which means that you multiply a by itself a times.
e.g. 1^1 = 1
2^2 = 2 x 2 = 4
3^3 = 3 x 3 x 3 = 37
4^4 = 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 = 256
etc...
You can also use superscript notation, so you would write a immediately followed by a small superscipt a to represent it too... (unfortunately it's not letting me put the HTML in for that)...
2007-12-31 03:11:51 · answer #3 · answered by Rick Mills 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
exponent
4 = 2^2
27 = 3^3
256 = 2^8
2007-12-31 03:11:14 · answer #4 · answered by Nur S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a^a is "a raised to the a power."
2007-12-31 03:07:51 · answer #5 · answered by fcas80 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋