the value that indicates the number of times another value is multiplied by itself in exponential notation. The exponent, also called the power, is written in superscript. In the term 5³, 5 is the base and 3 is the exponent.

a convention for writing very large and very small numbers in which a number is expressed as the product of a power of 10 and a number that is greater than or equal to 1 and less than 10 as in 3.2 • 10⁴