Answer by qwr for Why use radical notation instead of rational exponents?
Aesthetically, I think in typesetting and writing $$\sqrt n \quad \text{and} \quad 2 \pi \sqrt{\frac l g} $$look better than $$n^{1/2} = n^{\frac 1 2} \quad \text{and} \quad 2 \pi \left(\frac l...
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(Sorry about the generation error!)To attempt to answer the actual question, I think that it’s a largely two-fold consequence of the historical inertia mentioned in the comments by @coffeemath. On the...
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I'm helping my younger sister for her math class. She has recently been taught integer exponents, and has starteed studying radicals (mainly square roots). The next topic will be rational exponents,...
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