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by Anonymous on November 7th, 2006

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What is the origin of the word exponent?

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  • by Anindya Bhattacharyya on November 7th, 2006

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    the word exponent came from latin and it means one who interprets,advocate,a symbol written above and to the right of a mathematical expression to indicate the operation of raising to a power.

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