What is meant by cube? like as 2 4 cubed? An example shows that it = 16 how did they work that? What is cubed?
Thank you, PH:confused:

I'm thinking that something is wrong because two cubed is not equal to 16:

Squared is a number to the second power:

Cubed is a number to the third power:

Additional powers are usually said to be "to the nth power". For example,



because

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Originally Posted by Perito

I'm thinking that something is wrong because two cubed is not equal to 16:

Squared is a number to the second power:

Cubed is a number to the third power:

Additional powers are usually said to be "to the nth power". For example,



because

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Thank you this really helps, I know you are right :-)
PH