Why does a number powered to 0 = 1?

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Anything multiplied by 0 is 0 right so why does x number raised to the power of 0 = 1? isnt it x^0 = x*0 (im turning grade 10 and i asked my teacher about this he told me its because its just what he was taught 💀)

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x^0 is what’s known as an empty product, a product with no terms. It’s the product of 0 x’s. Mathematicians typically define empty products as 1, since that’s the result you get when you divide a product by all of its terms.

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