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Question from Paige: how do you write the square root 3 in exponential form |
HI Paige,
The exponential form convention is that
\[\sqrt{3} = 3^{1/2}.\]
In fact if $n$ is a positive integer then
\[\sqrt[n]{3} = 3^{1/n}\]
and we write
\[ \sqrt{3} \mbox{ for } \sqrt[2]{3}.\]
Penny
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