Every positive integer can be written as a power on some base > 1.
To see this, let "a" be some positive interger.
Then, using logs and assuming that b > 1, we have.....
logb a = x ...... which says, exponentially, that
bx = a
And we have written "a" in terms of a power on a base > 1
Every positive integer can be written as a power on some base > 1.
To see this, let "a" be some positive interger.
Then, using logs and assuming that b > 1, we have.....
logb a = x ...... which says, exponentially, that
bx = a
And we have written "a" in terms of a power on a base > 1