Why is the factorial of 0 equal to 1?

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Wouldn’t this also mean that 1!=0!, why is this true?

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Because you think factorial as a multiplication while it is actually a division.

n! = (n+1)! / (n+1)

For n = 0;

0! = 1! / 1 = 1

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