Abstract

This chapter presents a method that helps to expand the capability to handle any exponent, whether zero, a positive integer, a negative integer, or a rational number. Radicals are an alternate way of writing rational exponent forms. As solutions of polynomial equations frequently involve radicals, the chapter presents ways to manipulate and simplify radical forms as background to the study of polynomial equations of degree greater than 1. The real number system is inadequate to provide a solution to all polynomial equations. It is necessary to create a new type of number, called a complex number.

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