Editing Exponentiation (section)

==Etymology==
The term ''exponent'' originates from the [[Latin]] ''exponentem'', the [[present participle]] of ''exponere'', meaning "to put forth".<ref>{{cite web |title=Exponent &#124; Etymology of exponent by etymonline |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/exponent}}</ref> The term ''power'' ({{langx|la|potentia, potestas, dignitas}}) is a mistranslation<ref name="Rotman">{{cite book |last=Rotman |first=Joseph J. |author-link=Joseph J. Rotman |date=2015 |title=Advanced Modern Algebra, Part 1 |location=Providence, RI |publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]] |at=p. 130, fn. 4 |isbn=978-1-4704-1554-9 |edition=3rd |series=[[Graduate Studies in Mathematics]] |volume=165 |url=https://www.ams.org/books/gsm/165/04 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Szabó |first=Árpád |date=1978 |title=The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics |location=Dordrecht |publisher=[[D. Reidel]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/TheBeginningsOfGreekMathematics/page/n37 37] |isbn=90-277-0819-3 |series=Synthese Historical Library |volume=17 |translator=A.M. Ungar |url=https://archive.org/details/TheBeginningsOfGreekMathematics}}</ref> of the [[ancient Greek]] δύναμις (''dúnamis'', here: "amplification"<ref name="Rotman"/>) used by the [[Greek mathematics|Greek]] mathematician [[Euclid]] for the square of a line,<ref name="MacTutor"/> following [[Hippocrates of Chios]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Ball |first=W. W. Rouse |author-link=W. W. Rouse Ball |date=1915 |title=A Short Account of the History of Mathematics |location=London |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi00ballrich/page/38 38] |edition=6th |url=https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi00ballrich}}</ref>


The word ''exponent'' was coined in 1544 by Michael Stifel.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jeff560.tripod.com/e.html|title=Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (E)|date=June 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Stifel |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Stifel |date=1544 |title=Arithmetica integra |location=Nuremberg |publisher=[[Johannes Petreius]] |page=235v |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_fndPsRv08R0C/page/n491}}</ref> In the 16th century, [[Robert Recorde]] used the terms "square", "cube", "zenzizenzic" ([[fourth power]]), "sursolid" ([[fifth power (algebra)|fifth]]), "zenzicube" ([[sixth power|sixth]]), "second sursolid" ([[seventh power|seventh]]), and "[[zenzizenzizenzic]]" ([[eighth power|eighth]]).<ref name="worldwidewords">{{cite web |title=Zenzizenzizenzic |publisher=World Wide Words |last=Quinion |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Quinion |url=https://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-zen1.htm |access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref> "Biquadrate" has been used to refer to the fourth power as well.