SOLUTION: Could -2 be used as a base to rewrite 32?64? Why or why not?

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Question 1091376: Could -2 be used as a base to rewrite 32?64? Why or why not?

Answer by ikleyn(52863) About Me  (Show Source):
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Could -2 be used as a base to highlight%28cross%28rewrite%29%29 represent 32? 64? Why or why not?
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For  64  the answer is  "YES",  because  %28-2%29%5E6 = 64.


For  32  the answer is  "NO",  because  such an integer  n  that %28-2%29%5En = 32  does not exist.   

    (And, as additional argument, only integer positive indexes are allowed to consider the expressions  %28-2%29%5En  with the negative base).


Notice  that your question was not mathematically precisely correct,
              so I edited it.