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document.write( "The index of a square root is 2, and write 100 as 102: \r\n" );
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document.write( "10 and p already has exponents that can\r\n" );
document.write( "be divided evenly by index 2. But m doesn't. We write\r\n" );
document.write( "m9 as m8m1 so that m8 will have as large as possible an exponent divisible by 2.\r\n" );
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document.write( "We take 102 out of the square root as\r\n" );
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document.write( "into the exponent 2 of 10.\r\n" );
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document.write( "2 into the exponent 8 of x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "into the exponent 4 of p.\r\n" );
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