Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #11795: Prime factorization - Answers Don't recognize carrots
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-21 21:33:12+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, lion, other

Reporter: jcperr03@gmail.com

When answering a question dealing with prime factorization, carrots are not recognized. I have been taught that (2^3) is representative of 2 to the third power. But when I enter (2^3)x7 as the prime factorization of 56, it is not recognized. Also, 2x2x2x7 is recognized.

[prime_factorization.html?seed=127&problem=composite](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/prime_factorization.html?seed=127&problem=composite&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/prime_factorization.html?seed=127&problem=composite&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22(2%5E3\)x7%5C%22%22%2C48%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%222x2x2x7%5C%22%22%2C17%5D%5D)

["(2^3)x7","2x2x2x7"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

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