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<math> 2^3 = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 </math>
<math> 2^3 = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 </math>


and


<math> 2^5 = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 </math>


== Preliminaries ==
== Preliminaries ==

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Community Explanations

Translation

In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure or a space by the same distance in a given direction.

Exponents

Exponents can be though of as repeated multiplication, meaning:

<math> 2^3 = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 </math>

and

<math> 2^5 = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 </math>

Preliminaries

Essential

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