Since basic school we know, that [math]x^0=1[/math], but only recently when our kids began to study mathematics we asked ourselves “why?”.
I came up with this explanation:
[math]x^0=x^{n-n}=x^n \times x^{-n}=\frac {x^n} {x^n}=1[/math]
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