exponentiations

Noun

exponentiation (countable and uncountable, plural exponentiations)

1. The process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors, where the exponent specifies the number of factors to multiply.
   • In 5⁴ the base is 5 and the power is 4, so there are 4 identical factors of 5, and exponentiation gives 625 as the result.
2. (countable) A mathematical problem involving exponentiation.
   • "The remarkable fact about the system is that it achieves such a high level of security with only six exponentiations," Boneh said, referring to the calculations used to raise numbers to a power. Other systems do exponentiation once, suggesting that this system may be about six times slower because...1998 August 25, Peter Wayner, “IBM Says Encryption System Prevents Hacker Attack”, in The New York Times