We have the following exercise
What is a cube of a number x?
The answer is to multiply this number or quantity 3 times. For example:
1^3 = 1 x 1 x 1 = 1,
2^3 = 2x 2 x 2 = 8
4^3 = 4x4x4 = 64
and so on.
Equivalently, let represent with a stick a unity 1: so for example
So if we want 2^3, is the same to say:
that is 2^3 = 8