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What is a context in which 3 is tacitly understood without needing to be written?

As an exponent in a prime factorization, 1 is generally not written.

For a square root, the 2 is not written in the radical (except of course for sqrt(2)).

Is there something similar with 3?

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  • ­
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    I can't recall anything in mathematics where 3 is tacitly understood. I suppose you are meaning limited to mathematics.

  • 9 years ago

    No, I do not believe so.

    3 is always shown.

    Only a few numbers get to do what you say.

    1 as an exponent.

    2 as the square root.

    10 as the base of a log.

    There are probably a few others, but I don't beleive three does anything.

  • david
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    space usually means 3 dimensional space

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