SOLUTION: if you start from 2 and keep multypling by 2 what is the 100 term

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Question 536215: if you start from 2 and keep multypling by 2 what is the 100 term

Answer by Earlsdon(6294) About Me  (Show Source):
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Try this:
Let n = the term number and m the result, so...
n....m
1....2 = 2%5E1
2....4 = 2%5E2
3....8 = 2%5E3
4....16 =2%5E4
5....32 =2%5E5
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n....2%5En
So the 100th term n = 100 and 2%5E100 = 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376