How To Write Exponents

Click the home tab and choose the superscript option.

How to write exponents. Exponents are also called powers or indices. Press the num lock button on your keyboard to activate number lock. Then press and hold the alt key. Press shift 6 to type in the caret symbol. 8 2 could be called 8 to the power 2 or 8 to the second power or simply 8 squared.

When you are working on a document in microsoft word and want to print an exponent first type the base number. B 4 b b b b. Then select the home tab. Powers of ten are the result of multiplying 10 times itself any number of times. Leave a space before and after the character that should be an exponent.

To use this method to type an exponent on a computer you need to. For example a m a a a a m times. The exponent of a number tells us how many times the number is multiplied. Exponents are also called powers or indices. Move your mouse pointer to wherever on your screen you want to type the exponent.

You begin by writing the number being multiplied 3 and then the number of times it is being multiplied 15. The 0176 code is used for a degree symbol 0185 is used for an exponent of one 0178 is used for an exponent of two and 0179 is used for an exponent of three. Leave the exponent as 9 4. To add an exponent symbol after a number or letter when using a windows operating system the alt key should be held down and the code 0176 0185 0178 or 0179 should be pressed. For example 1 000 has three zeros so 1 000 10 3 10 3 means to take 10 times itself three times so it equals 10 x 10 x 10.

Use superscript to write exponents in microsoft word. The number a is known as base and m is said to be exponent and a m is said to be the exponent form of the number. The first is using a superscript. Using exponents we can write this one of two ways. In the font section of the toolbar select the superscript function which appears on the toolbar as x 2 type your exponent and it will appear in the appropriate position.