Exponentiation
When it is a positive integer, the exponent indicates how many copies of the base are multiplied together. For example, . The base appears times in the repeated multiplication, because the exponent is . Here, is the "base", is the "exponent", and is the "power" or, more specifically, "3 raised to the 5th power".
Exponentiation
There are various definitions of the exponential function but they extend compatibly to complex numbers and satisfy the exponential property. For any complex numbers "z" and "w", the exponential function satisfies formula_57. In particular, for any complex number formula_58