Extension: Making Sense of Irrational Exponents

Explanations 2

• Difficulty Going Beyond Integer and Fractional Exponents So now that we've seen how to do integer exponents and fractional exponents, the question comes up: How do we do exponen…

  By Jason Schuchardt, Alex Federspiel, Moor Xu, Victor Wang

• Blurb What is the true meaning of a general real exponential BxB^xBx, for B>0B>0B>0 a positive base and xxx an arbitrary exponent, possibly irrational? This is a good question. …

  By Victor Wang