Describe why the prime factorization of a number is sometimes written with exponents?

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Nahomy · Answer 1 · 2016-02-21T11:41:18+0000

Say you wanted to write the prime factorization of 8.
Its prime factorization can be written as 2 × 2 × 2, but it would be much easier to just write it as 2³ (2 times itself 3 times)

Describe why the prime factorization of a number is sometimes written with exponents?

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