How to Multiply by a Power in Excel. When you multiply a number by a power, you are really just multiplying that number by itself a number of times equal to the power. This means that, for example ...

As a refresher: log is short for logarithm, which helps people decipher exponents that make numbers squared or cubed or even something higher.

Add Numbers in Excel Performing addition in Excel is fairly straightforward. You can either add numbers directly or use cell references to work with values stored in specific cells.