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Forum Name: High school
Topic ID: 212
Message ID: 2
#2, RE: power of 2
Posted by Jen on Nov-10-02 at 07:07 PM
In response to message #1
what i meant by power of 2 was that the number has a form 2^n where n is an integer. Neither 12^2 nor 21^2 is a power of two since one can't find an integer n so that 2^n = 12^2 or 2^n = 21^2.