Power and Root
Fallacies involving disregarding the rules of elementary arithmetic through an incorrect manipulation of the radical. For complex numbers the failure of power and logarithm identities has led to many fallacies.
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when will you leave me quite?
when will you break my wings
or leave them utterly free
to scale heaven endlessly?”
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“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.”
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“Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)