In the technical/mathematical world, we often need to know which numbers are 'special' powers: numbers that can be written as an integer base raised to an integer power. For example: 8 is a special power: 2^3 (where '^' indicates the operation of exponentiation). You probably are more familiar with it in this form: 2³, thanks to the <sup> tag in HTML.

As you may recall, 2³ means 2 * 2 * 2.

A weird power is b⁰ = 1, where b is any non-zero integer. We must hasten to say that 0⁰ is not zero or one: it's undefined.

Enter an integer in the form and the app will generate all powers less than or equal to that number.

Exact matches to the number will be highlighted in yellow; powers within 5% of the number will be highlighted in blue.

If you need a little inspiration, watch a movie clip we thought of as we wrote this app.

Note: Although it is less than ideal, you may need to scroll horizontally to see the complete contents of the power table.

Last update: 10/07/19

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