Why every number to the power of 0 is equal to 1?

Question

I’m too dumb to get it

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

For multiplication, 1 is the neutral number, just like 0 is the neutral number for addition. When you take the take the 0th power of a number, you bring it back down to neutral, and so that makes it 1. It’s not supposed to make sense, it’s just an arbitrary base case to make the rest of algebra work.