> it would be something that multiplied with itself twice would have be the same as 2 multiplied with itself once from what i recall that's the way to go: You

> it would be something that multiplied with itself twice would have be the same as 2 multiplied with itself once from what i recall that's the way to go: You can use this to extend the definition of exponentials as "repeated addition" from allowing only natural numbers expoonents to allowing positive rational numbers. Afterwards you can "complete" this to allow real exponents. But this requires some hard maths to do rigorously.