I am trying to illustrate some simple ideas with exponents. I can manually express something like $5^4$ as $5 \cdot 5 \cdot 5 \cdot 5$, but wondered how to get Mathematica to do that for me.
I found the example below in the documentation, but can't figure out how to "massage" it to work with a number that only has one factor, for example I would like $625$ to be represented as $5 \cdot 5 \cdot 5 \cdot 5$:
CenterDot @@ (Superscript @@@ FactorInteger[20!])
Any ideas would be appreciated.
InactiveFactorInteger
ResourceFunction, though it does not expand non-distinct factors like you want, e.g.ResourceFunction["InactiveFactorInteger"][12]
returns $2^2\times3$ . $\endgroup$