Why??

Why is a^0 = 1 ??
Where a is any number.

8 Answers

1
prateek mehta ·

easy

1
prateek mehta ·

0=n-n

a^0=a^(n-n)

a^0=a^n * a^(-n)=a^n/a^n=1

for any 'n' ....

11
Soham Mukherjee ·

If a=0?

then?

1
souvik seal ·

oh....it is thus defined...

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Manish Shankar ·

for zero it is not defined..

6
Kalyan IIT-K Beware I'm coming ·

o0is inderteminate
beacause
same logic given by prateek
o0 can be written as
01-1
i.e.
0/0
and we all know that 0/0 is indeterminant.
thus it is not defined.

13
Avik ·

There is a TiiT Classic on 00...
( http://targetiit.com/iit-jee-forum/posts/10th-january-2009-1565.html )

1
Ricky ·

Hmmm , pretty good and simple doubt posted here , ...... , nice to see .

As far as ( 0 ) 0 , is concerned , I think the answer can either be 1 or 0 depending on the conditions .

One should probably note that ( 0 ) 0 is actually the single element in the intersection of the sets ,

" 0 n " and " n 0 " , where " n " is any number .

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