WTF? Divide by 0 on PC Calculator

[General Nick]

3^3=27
3^2=9
3^1=3
3^0=1

Notice how from the top down the result is pretty much dividing by three every time we get one less exponent?

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Notice how from the top down the result is pretty much dividing by three every time we get one less exponent?

and i start to feel old here...
i guess no one here is in Algebra I except me

[General Omega]

That is to the power of zero. Anything to the power of zero is one.

291783921032190734892748900^0 = 1

Try it.

What you are looking for is 1/0 or x/0

[Radial543]

and i start to feel old here...
i guess no one here is in Algebra I except me

read the topic.

[Rughugger]

I always thought of 0 as the absence of value. So I can see why he would be confused with how it came up. 0 was invented as a means for the computer age, before then (to my knowledge. May be wrong too) no one used or knew of the concept of 0 since anything that had a 0 value didn't exist. So if 0 was the absence of value, then there'd be no way it could be divided by itself to make a whole numerical value.

I'm trying to think at 8am and that's not usually good for me. Anyone understand what I'm trying to get at? O.<

[FlyGuy45]

0^0=loving 1.

[UnDiViDeD]

My TI-89 says undefined.  When you raise X^0 it is not the same as X/X.  Following that logic, X^2 would be X/2.  0 cannot be raised to the 0th power.  I believe we could attempt to solve this by finding the sum of an infinite series, X^n as n goes to infinity or something like that.  The series would diverge to infinity, hence it being undefined.

[E_net4]

I seriously can't understand why you can't do 0^0. It is and always has been 1. I need more evidence before saying otherwise.

[Gamefandan]

i guess no one here is in Algebra I except me

*Spastically waves hands*