Thanks for the Christmas calendar Ginger!
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
anything raised to the 0 power is 1.
Even 0?
How about a cat?
(Actually, 0^0 =1, right? God, my memory sucks.)
Man, I'm nerdy. But thanks, nice mathy peoples!
Steph has made me miss the days when I was bright and math was fun and easy and exciting.
You're welcome, Gud.
Teppy, did you just need to understand for curiosity's sake, or do you have a situation that is requiring you to get this mathy (and should we smite it for you, if you do)?
Actually, 0^0 =1, right
I will *never* understand this, or the idea that 0*0 = 1.
So you've got some nothing. You raise it to the power of nothing (or multiply it by nothing), effectively giving nothing even more nothing. Suddenly you've got something? Where did it come from!? Dear God, WHERE?
This is why I'm not a creationist, isn't it?
Huh. There is debate on the subject:
ZERO TO THE ZERO POWER. Most textbook writers either leave 0^0 undefined, or state that it is undefined. Others say it should be defined as 1. Euler argued for 0^0 = 1; Cauchy considered it undefined. Most calculators give "error" for this expression, although some give "1."
As Euler goes, so goes my nation.
Ok, the Windows XP calculator says 0^0 is 1. What does the Mac OS X one say?