John Whitaker
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- May 9, 2006
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Continuing from yesterday's "A Question on Powers"
PKA & Denis were kind enough to help with this, and I thought I had it; but I was wrong. I should have used a smaller exponent that my calculator can handle. I could not follow:
(13)^23 = (13)^22+1 = (13)(13)^22 = (13)(13^2)^11 = (13)(169)^11...
Also puzzling was:
(13)^23 = (13)(169)^11 = (13)(169)(28561)^5 = (13)(169)(28561)(815730721)^2
started to make sense to me, but I lost it. I figured the first exponent "11" came from (13)(13^2), but I can't figure how the exponent "5" comes into play.
I really need to know this and appreciate the patience that has been shown to me.
John
PKA & Denis were kind enough to help with this, and I thought I had it; but I was wrong. I should have used a smaller exponent that my calculator can handle. I could not follow:
(13)^23 = (13)^22+1 = (13)(13)^22 = (13)(13^2)^11 = (13)(169)^11...
Also puzzling was:
(13)^23 = (13)(169)^11 = (13)(169)(28561)^5 = (13)(169)(28561)(815730721)^2
started to make sense to me, but I lost it. I figured the first exponent "11" came from (13)(13^2), but I can't figure how the exponent "5" comes into play.
I really need to know this and appreciate the patience that has been shown to me.
John