Superscript

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Superscripts are most commonly[1] used to denote powers, eg \(4^3=64\).

Superscripts are also commonly used to mark footnotes. If there is a footnote about a number, this can lead to an ambiguity, for example: there are 47[2] pages on this wiki. (Wiki styling puts square brackets around this reference, making this less ambiguous, but this is not always the case elsewhere.)

  1. ↑ But there are some other common uses of superscripts, see eg powers of trigonometric functions.
  2. ↑ This number is a guess, I didn't count them.