It kinda doesn’t make sense.
x¹= x
x² = x*x
x³= x*x*x
etc…
and even with negative numbers you’re still multiplying the number by itself
like (x)-² = 1/x² = 1/(x*x)
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We want rules like x^(n+m) = x^n * x^m.
That’s all fine and good and easy for positive and negative n, m. To keep the rules, we can simply define x^0 =1 (for nonzero x).
Think about x^0 = x/x. Which is 1 anyway.
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