ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Carlitz exponential

Okay, kiddo! So let's imagine we have a toy car that we want to make really fast. Well, there's a special trick we can use called the Carlitz Exponential!

First, we need to choose a special number called a prime number. Let's choose the number 3. Then, we can take our toy car and multiply its speed by 3, and then we multiply that result by 3 again, and keep doing this over and over. This is kind of like giving our car a turbo boost!

The Carlitz Exponential tells us how to do this multiplication quickly and easily using some special math tricks. We can use this trick to make our toy car go really, really fast!

But don't worry if you don't understand all of this yet, it's a pretty complicated idea. Just remember that the Carlitz Exponential is a way to make things go really fast using some special math tricks!