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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "What you wrote is 2x^-96 = 0, which means

which renders as

-- the graph of which is asymptotic to the

-axis, and hence has no zeros.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "But I don't think that is what you meant.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I suspect you meant

, which is VASTLY different than what you wrote. I suspect you are laboring under the misapprehension that the caret mark means to square the variable that precedes it. It does not mean that -- it means to raise the variable that precedes it to the power that follows it. I.e. x^2 means x squared, x^3 means x cubed, x^6 means x to the sixth power...and x^-96 means to raise x to the -96th power.\r
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