Continuing to replace every index and exponent with its factorization until no indices or exponents greater than <math>1</math> are left produces the following developmnt:
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Continuing to replace every index and exponent with its factorization until no index or exponent remains unfactored produces the following development:
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{| align="center" cellpadding="6" width="90%"
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Line 93:
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Letting the <math>1</math>'s be tacitly expressed leaves the following expression:
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The <math>1</math>'s that appear as indices and exponents are formally redundant, conveying no information apart from the places they occupy in the resulting syntactic structure. Leaving them tacit produces the following expression: