Power Function on Strictly Positive Base is Continuous/Rational Power

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Theorem

Let $a \in \R_{>0}$.

Let $f: \Q \to \R$ be the real-valued function defined as:

$\map f x = a^x$

where $a^x$ denotes $a$ to the power of $x$.


Then $f$ is continuous.


Proof