When you say that you are putting a number to the power of another, you are essentially saying, 'I am raising this number to the zeroeth power and therefore I am multiplying this number by itself 0 times'.
If you multiply nothing, you can only get the multiplicative identity, which just so happens to be 1.
The rule is most best easily shown by this formula: ' x^(n-1) = (x^n)/x'.
let x = 10 and n = 1 -->
x^0 = (x^1)/x --> 10^0 = 10/10 --> 1 = 1
Sorry, forgot how to use Latex already so it doesn't look pretty.
When you say that you are putting a number to the power of another, you are essentially saying, 'I am raising this number to the zeroeth power and therefore I am multiplying this number by itself 0 times'.
If you multiply nothing, you can only get the multiplicative identity, which just so happens to be 1.
The rule is most best easily shown by this formula: ' x^(n-1) = (x^n)/x'.
let x = 10 and n = 1 -->
x^0 = (x^1)/x --> 10^0 = 10/10 --> 1 = 1
Sorry, forgot how to use Latex already so it doesn't look pretty.
When you say that you are putting a number to the power of another, you are essentially saying, 'I am raising this number to the zeroeth power and therefore I am multiplying this number by itself 0 times'.
If you multiply nothing, you can only get the multiplicative identity, which just so happens to be 1.
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The bits I've highlighted in bold don't actually mean anything.