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Re:0^0 by dllthomas on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:57PM (#7520160)
What is "^ 0" in general, that it "makes" 1 "out of" 2, 3, 4, etc?
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Re:0^0 by jomtung on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @09:07PM (#7520205)
using the definition in the article where X^n = 1 * X * X ...

x^2 = 1XX x^1 = 1*X x^0 = 1

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Re:0^0 by dllthomas on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @09:08PM (#7520212)
Yes, for sure. My question was rhetorical, trying to drive intuition away from "But I'm starting with a zero, how do I get anything else?"
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