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Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are called the four basic arithmetical operations. Just as repeated addition of the same summand leads to a new arithmetical operation, namely multiplication, so repeated multiplication by the same factor leads to a new arithmetical operation: raising to a power or exponentiation. Like addition or multiplication, this operation can be inverted, but this time one obtains two distinct inverse operations: extracting roots and taking logarithms.
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Gellert, W., Gottwald, S., Hellwich, M., Kästner, H., Küstner, H. (1975). Higher arithmetical operations. In: Gellert, W., Gottwald, S., Hellwich, M., Kästner, H., Küstner, H. (eds) The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6982-0_3
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