Maths Question

Originally posted by genius
I know, but you initially said, "It was rule no.7 the way we were taught", but that is meerly for the real numbers...

It was just a flippant remark 🙂

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
[b]Also, by definition, 0^0=0/0, so that too is indeterminate.

I don't understand. What definition?[/b]

a^1 = a and a^2 = a*a (a =/= 0). The exponent determines how many factors of the base is multiplied together. So, a^0 means no factors of a, which is equal to a/a = 1.

Originally posted by mtthw
It was just a flippant remark 🙂

I know 🙂

Originally posted by twilight2007
a^1 = a and a^2 = a*a (a =/= 0). The exponent determines how many factors of the base is multiplied together. So, a^0 means no factors of a, which is equal to a/a = 1.

No factors of a, leaving just the 1 we always have with multiplication.