[Blindmath] Bases, exponents, and recursion

[sabra1023]

I think you are missing something.

On Sep 9, 2013, at 3:25 AM, "Andy B." <sonfire11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure if I am missing something or not. I sent something to the professor
> about the assignment.... He is going to have to help me figure it out.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David
> Tseng
> Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 10:40 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Bases, exponents, and recursion
> 
> Andy,
> 
> Are you sure you're not missing a caret (or super script) somewhere?
> 
> A base super exponent (or base^exponent) would make more sense.
> 
> So, the recurrence you're looking for is:
> base^exponent = base * base^(exponent - 1).
> 
> In the context of a computer science course (most likely discrete
> mathematics), this is meant to get you thinking about the power procedure as
> a recursive problem.
> 
> HTH,
> David
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Bente Casilenc <bente at casilenc.com> wrote:
> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> After looking at your example I will modify my previous statement. It 
>> looks to me like they want your power function to return the 
>> exponential problem as a multiplication problem. In essence you are 
>> returning a problem that shows the base multiplied by itself so 
>> working off your example you would see power (3,2) and your function 
>> would return 3*3 because 3 to the second power is a shortcut for
> representing 3 times 3 .  Hope this helps.
>> 
>> Bente
>> bente at casilenc.com
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Sep 8, 2013, at 5:01 PM, "Andy B." <sonfire11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have what most likely is a simple problem. However, it is quite 
>>> complicated to figure out. I have the following problem I have to solve:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Create a function called power that takes a base and exponent as the 
>>> arguments, then returns a base exponent. For example, power(2,5)=
>> 2*2*2*2*2.
>>> In the recursion step, use the relationship:
>>> 
>>> Base exponent=base*base exponent-1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I am totally confused. What exactly is a base exponent?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The sample that I have used 6! As an example, but it doesn't seem to 
>>> help when trying to figure out the power of a number through 
>>> recursion. I
>> assume
>>> the example wants something like this:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Power(2,5)=
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Recursion steps:
>>> 
>>> Exponent = result
>>> 
>>> 1=2
>>> 
>>> 2=4
>>> 
>>> 3=8
>>> 
>>> 4=16
>>> 
>>> 5=32
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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