Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Fractional Indices (1)

Think about it.


Think about it.


x is not just x. x is x1. x is x raised to the power of one: x multiplied by itself no times at all; x just being x. So then x 1 is x on its own. x is, therefore, x.

So then, x1/2 is going to be a number that, multiplied by itself, makes x.

In other words, the square root of x.


√x = x 1/2


It does get a bit more complicated than this....

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