Because “nothing” behaves differently than “something”, operations with it can be surprising. Although students learn that \(x^0=1\) for any non-zero number x, they often wonder, why?? I’ve selected a few out of at least a dozen such questions in our archive. Using the quotient rule for exponents. We’ll start with a question from 1996: More @Wikipedia
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