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Corrected the expansion of a number raised to a negative integer
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Rishabh Patel committed Jun 18, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ \subsection{Exponentials and Logarithms}
\[
b^x = \underbrace{b\times b\times \cdots \times b}_{x} \enspace .
\]
When $x$ is a negative integer, $b^x=1/b^{-x}$. When $x=0$, $b^x=1$.
When $x$ is a negative integer, $b^{-x}=1/b^{x}$. When $x=0$, $b^x=1$.
When $b$ is not an integer, we can still define exponentiation in terms
of the exponential function $e^x$ (see below), which is itself defined in
terms of the exponential series, but this is best left to a calculus text.
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