Why is it that something raised to the zero power is one?
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When we first learn exponentiation, we typically learn it in terms of repeated multiplication. So something like 2³ is 8 because we take 2 and multiply it by itself three times: 2 × 2 × 2. This works fine for any positive integer powers, but what about raising something to the zero power?
It seems like if we tried multiplying 2 by itself "zero times", that would probably mean that the result should be zero. But in fact, it makes more sense to let the result be 1. There are several reasons for this, but this activity with folding paper gives us one intuitive reason to expect that something raised to the zero power is 1.
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