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Exponents a la shmoop hi I'm opponent or at least I used to be.. [Number 2 giving a speech]

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I was riding high and turning right enjoying life and walking on air, hanging

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out with my good old buddy five, until an algebra student came along and ruined [young boy scribbling on paper]

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everything. He simplified my butt right out of

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existence I have many other exponent friends [Number 3 sat at a bar and number 8 wiping the bar]

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I was pretty simple compared to them, all I did was square my buddy five without

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me he was just five but after I came along he was five times five. Or, put

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another way himself times himself.. A few of my exponent friends did a lot more [Number 7 in class with other students]

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than I did my homie 3, the exponent, cubed whatever number was hanging out with him.

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In other words their number became itself times itself times itself. 2 cubed [Number 8 trapped inside a cube]

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could become 8. 3 cubed could become 27.. and so on. We were in charge of creating

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some awfully big numbers but it didn't stop there I had friends that could [Queen singing don't stop me now]

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raise a number or base to a 4th power a 5th power or a 6th power....

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I had one friend who could raise a number to a 38th power he didn't get a [Number 38 holding up number 2 above a skyscraper]

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lot of work though. I also had some friends on the opposite end of the

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spectrum, like how one raised numbers to the first power nice guy, but pretty

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useless he tried real hard to be as cool as the [School kids with the number 1]

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rest of us but he simply didn't affect his base numbers at all... And then there

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was this goth loner who never spoke to any of us he would raise base numbers to [Number zero dressed as a goth]

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the zeroth power and turn him into ones.. It was like he was turning them all into

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zombies pretty scary yeah we had a lot of power [Number 1's turn into zombies in an alley]

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back in the good old days I mean everyone could tell what our deal [Numbers 5, 6 and 2 playing poker]

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was just by looking at us. Anyway, I no longer serve any purpose so now all I do

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is float through mathematical purgatory waiting for some other number that [Number 6 waiting in a cue]

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needs to be squared wait hold on I think I hear a number crying out for an

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exponent, I'm on my way..Number in need exponent to the rescue let's hear it for [Number 2 flying in the air with a cape]

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power ..power..power.

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