How come 0^0 equals 1? Who decided that?

in #math7 years ago

 I see lots of answers, and all quite nice and make sense but let’s approach this differently, for fun.

Most folks thinks in “addition land” fairly easily. 

Let’s look at that first.When I write 3x =?

And take it to a number line, it means starting at the additive identity, zero, take steps of size +3, and take x steps.So it looks like this: (ex also shown: 3(5)=??) 


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