{"version":"1.0","type":"link","title":"Prime factor exponent notation - Newikis","description":"In his 1557 work The Whetstone of Witte, British mathematician Robert Recorde proposed an exponent notation by prime factorisation, which remained in use up until the eighteenth century and acquired the name Arabic exponent notation.[citation needed] The principle of Arabic exponents was quite…","provider_name":"Newikis","provider_url":"https://newikis.com","cache_age":86400}