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Could smb please explain, why we write 2^b-2^18(2^6+1) instead of 2^b-2^24-2^18?

Isn't it 8^8=(2^3)^8 = 8^24 and so on?

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Could smb please explain, why we write 2^b-2^18(2^6+1) instead of 2^b-2^24-2^18?

Isn't it 8^8=(2^3)^8 = 8^24 and so on?

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If I understood your question correctly, you want to understand why the question stem was broken down to 2^b-2^18(2^6+1) instead of 2^b - 2^24 - 2^18
That's because we are interested in finding the value of b which makes the value of x close to 0. Ideally, every base should be 2 so that we can easily find for what value of b would x be closest to zero.

2^b - 2^24 - 2^18 -> This form doesn't help explain what could be possible value of b whereas this form(2^b-2^18(2^6+1)) helps.

Let me know, in case you had a different question in mind!
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I was just having fun with numbers and then I looked at the answer option and tadaaa, answer was there. Hope that helped. Hope its correct.
Was doing it directly from the book.
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