That reduces our task to finding values of the exponents \(\alpha\), \(\beta\), and \(\gamma\) (alpha, beta and gamma) that give the right-hand side of the equation the value “length to the first powe...That reduces our task to finding values of the exponents \(\alpha\), \(\beta\), and \(\gamma\) (alpha, beta and gamma) that give the right-hand side of the equation the value “length to the first power.” Note that we could have used \(a\), \(b\) and \(c\) instead, but we are already using \(c\) to mean the speed of light, and we want to avoid confusion.