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Why 2 raise to power 0 is 1?
Question Date: 2019-08-29
Answer 1:

Any number to the "o" power equals "1".

In the case that you mention in your question:
20 can be expressed as:
2n / 2 n = 1, where "n" means any number;
this equals:
2 [(n-n)= 0 ]= 1
then 2 0 = 1



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