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cesium133:

--- Quote from: Loki on 20 May 2014, 00:19 ---English math terms have borrowed in quite a few places from German. Consider, for example, eigenvectors and eigenvalues.

--- End quote ---
Physics terms as well: gerade/ungerade, brehmstrallung (probably spelled that one wrong...), etc.

GarandMarine:

bainidhe_dub:
Can someone explain how to handle exponents in simple algebra equations?

According to the answer key, 25/2-23/2=23/2

But why??

cesium133:
You can rewrite 25/2 as 2*2*21/2 (each time you multiply by two that adds 1 to the exponent).

So, in this case, 25/2-23/2 = 2*23/2-23/2 = 23/2 * (2-1) = 23/2

Carl-E:
In other words, it's not the exponents that needed handling.  It needed to be broken down into components in order to be solved. 

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