That reduces our task to finding values of the exponents α, β, and γ (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 α, β, and γ (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.