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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Because when you go below the power of 1 it becomes a division rather than a multiplication. So where x¹ is just the base value of x, when you go to x⁰ you are dividing x by itself. A number divided by itself is always 1.

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