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Question...If 5 with a small 2 to the right top = 5 squared or 25, then what is 5 with a small 2 to the right bottom???
I've never seen that notation to mean any type of numerical operation. But for example, if I had three really similar things, I would call them:
To get across the idea that they share something in common, but in fact are different.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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