Supposed to simplify it... so... is this negative or positive?

Because I know that:

(-1)^1 = negative (odd number exponent)

(-1)^2 = positive (even number exponent)

(-1)^(-5/8) = ?? (wtf???)

negative.

-1 ^ (-8/5) = -1 ^ (5/8)

this can be written as

[(-1) ^ 5] / [(-1) ^ 8] = -1 / 1 = -1

Hey haven't seen you in a while


Here's my answer for you Mibu:

those latex skills

This post was edited by jiangstein on Apr 22 2019 11:29am