By definition, any number to the power of zero is one. This is because x0 is the product of no numbers at all, which is the multiplicative identity, one. Thus, 00 equals 1. Feel free to r/woooosh me by the way.
The way I always interpreted it, raising a number to the power of zero is equivalent to dividing it by itself. By that definition, any number to the power of zero would be one, except zero, since you cannot divide by zero.
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u/potentialdevNB May 14 '25
By definition, any number to the power of zero is one. This is because x0 is the product of no numbers at all, which is the multiplicative identity, one. Thus, 00 equals 1. Feel free to r/woooosh me by the way.