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Numbers are sort of like your bedroom closet: the less clutter, the better! So how do you express a number that gets really big, really fast—say, the growth of a rabbit population, or the distance between two planets—without it taking up your whole notebook? Exponents are the answer: https://brnpop.co/3eeqICr

That tiny number that appears above and to the right of a base number indicates repeated multiplication. It expresses how many of the base numbers get multiplied. This kind of growth is exponential, and it can send numbers skyrocketing in a flash!

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