しすう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しすう – see the following entry.
【指数】
[noun] (economics) index - a single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
[noun] (mathematics) exponent, power - a product of equal factors. Notation and usage: xn, read as "x to the power of n" or "x to the nth power", denotes x × x × ... × x, in which x appears n times, where n is called the exponent; the definition is extended to non-integer and complex exponents.
(This term, しすう (shisū), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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