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Defining Technical Standards for Negative Exponents

As part of a professional development workshop on technical documentation, you are asked to describe the standard mathematical rule for handling negative exponents. State the definition of a negative exponent for any non-zero base aa raised to an integer power n-n. In your response, provide the general formula used to rewrite the expression with a positive exponent and specify whether a term containing a negative exponent is considered to be in its simplest mathematical form.

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