Question
Determine whether the following operations define a binary operation on the given set or not:
$'*\ ' $ on $ N$ defined by $a * b = a^b$ for all $\text{a, b}\in\text{N.}$
$'*\ ' $ on $ N$ defined by $a * b = a^b$ for all $\text{a, b}\in\text{N.}$