Nice one, Joshua! Gosh, I haven't come across that word for years! But it's not really a verb. To go from c to x^c I'd have to say, "Find the base-x antilog of c." Or more formally, "Find the base-x antilogarithm of c." 12 syllables, as compared with only 7 for "Raise x to the power c". Maybe that's the best possible, though. --Dan << antilog? I wrote: << When we write a base x to a power c to get the number x^c we say we "exponentiate x to the power c". I seek an appropriate verb so the the power is the object, reversing the emphasis: I.e., we use x *to do what* to c ??? Any help will be appreciated.

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