Logarithms also undo a fundamental arithmetic operation, exponentiation. Exponentiation is when you raise a number to a certain power. For example, raising 2 to the power 3 equals 8.
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Exponentiation
//ˌɛk.spoʊˌnɛn.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "exponentiation" (1 found)
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24 translations across 16 languages.
Basque
1 entries- berreketa noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Bulgarian
2 entries- степену́ване noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
- степену́ване noun (mathematical problem involving exponentiation)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乘方 noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Czech
3 entries- mocnění noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
- umocnění noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
- umocňování noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Finnish
2 entries- potenssiin korotus noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
- potenssiin korotus noun (mathematical problem involving exponentiation)
French
1 entries- exponentiation noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Hungarian
2 entries- hatványozás noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
- hatványra emelés noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Italian
2 entries- esponenziale noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
- potenza noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Japanese
2 entries- 冪乗 noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
- 累乗 noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Polish
1 entries- potęgowanie noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Portuguese
1 entries- exponenciação noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Romanian
1 entries- exponențiere noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Sicilian
2 entries- putenza noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
- spuninziali noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Spanish
1 entries- exponenciación noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Swedish
1 entries- exponentiering noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lũy thừa noun (the process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors)
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In 5⁴ the base is 5 and the power is 4, so there are 4 identical factors of 5, and exponentiation gives 625 as the result.
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"The remarkable fact about the system is that it achieves such a high level of security with only six exponentiations," Boneh said, referring to the calculations used to raise numbers to a power. Other systems do exponentiation once, suggesting that this system may be about six times slower because exponentiation is the most time-consuming step in encrypting the data.
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"The remarkable fact about the system is that it achieves such a high level of security with only six exponentiations," Boneh said, referring to the calculations used to raise numbers to a power. Other systems do exponentiation once, suggesting that this system may be about six times slower because exponentiation is the most time-consuming step in encrypting the data.
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