The detail of the laws of exponents for exponents different from positive integers will be done in the next sections, in this section we will only see positive integral exponents.

For any real number a,

(i) a^m. aⁿ = a^m+n

(iii) (a^m)n = a^m.n

(iv) aⁿ. bⁿ = (ab)ⁿ

(vi) a⁰ = 1, a ≠ 1