I'm still confused about order of operations on exponents:
Is $x^{a^b}$ equal to $x^{(a^b)}$ or $(x^a)^b$?
*Hmm... $x^{a^b}$ has the source of x^{a^b}
. Whenever I try x^a^b
, it requires me to "clarify by using braces".
I'm still confused about order of operations on exponents:
Is $x^{a^b}$ equal to $x^{(a^b)}$ or $(x^a)^b$?
*Hmm... $x^{a^b}$ has the source of x^{a^b}
. Whenever I try x^a^b
, it requires me to "clarify by using braces".
Since $(a^b)^c = a^{bc}$, it makes much more sense to use the convention $a^{b^c} = a^{\left(b^c\right)}.$ This is knows as "right associativity".