 The Second Power of a number is the product obtained by using the number twice as a factor. Thus, 16 is the second power of 4, since 4x4-- 16.  Complete School Algebra - Page 73by Herbert Edwin Hawkes, William Arthur Luby, Frank Charles Touton - 1919 - 507 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Stewart Eaton - 1862 - 320 pages
...16, 18, and 24s. each, may be taken to form a flock of 125 sheep worth 15s. each? INVOLUTION. 34 4. A POWER of a number is the product obtained by using the number two or more times as a factor. INVOLUTION t* the process of raising a number to a power. The number... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1863 - 350 pages
...factor. The number itself is called the root of the power, or simply the first power. 406. The Second Power of a number is the product obtained by using the number twice as a factor. Thus, 16 = 4x4 is the second power of 4. 40^ The Third Power of a number is the... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 322 pages
...16, 18, and 24s. each, may be taken to form a flock of 125 sheep worth 15s. each? INVOLUTION. 344. A POWER of a number is the product obtained by using the number two or more times as a factor. INVOLUTION is the process of raising a number to a power. The number... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1876 - 588 pages
...factor. Involution may, therefore, be defined as the process of raising numbers to required powers. The power of a number is the product obtained by using the number as a factor any number of times. The different powers of a number are called, respectively, the square, the cube,... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1877 - 232 pages
...using the number twice as a factor. Thus, 16 is the second power of 4, since 4x4-- 16. Gil. The Third Power of a number is the product obtained by using the number three times as a factor. Thus 64 is the third power of 4, since 4x4x4 = 64. 6113. The Fourth Power... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1877 - 444 pages
...the number several times as a factor. The number itself is called the first power. 610. The Second Power of a number is the product obtained by using the number twice as a factor. Thus, 16 is the second power of 4, since 4x4 = 16. 611. The Third Power of a number... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1877 - 438 pages
...number three times as a factor. Thus 64 is the third power of 4, since 4 x 4 x 4 = 64. 612. The Fourth Power of a number is the product obtained by using the number four times as a factor; the Fifth Power, five times as a factor, etc. 613. The Degree of a power is... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1877 - 528 pages
...the number several times as a factor. The number itself is called the first power. 786. The Second Power of a number is the product obtained by using the number twice as a factor. Thus, 16 is the second power of 4, since 4x 4=16. 787. The Third Power of a number... | |
 | Eugene L. Dubbs - Arithmetic - 1893 - 238 pages
...VII. INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION. LESSON I. INVOLUTION is the process of finding any power of a number. A power of a number is the product obtained by using the number as a factor several times. The first power is the number itself. If the number be taken twice as a factor, the... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1895 - 430 pages
...the number several times as a factor. The number itself is called the first power. 544. The Second Power of a number is the product obtained by using the number twice as a factor. Thus, 16 is the second power of 4, since 4x4=16. 545. The Third Power of a number... | |
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