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Article #1038Re: 0^0=Indeterminate quantity right ?
From: Erik Max Francis
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 20:45
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 20:45
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Pratik Parikh wrote:
> If 0 to the power of 0 = indeterminate quantity then why do some
> calculators
> like the one we get with MS Windows and Linux show 0^0=1?
See the sci.math FAQ. 0^0 is often considered to be 1 for convenience:
http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node14.html#SECTION005300000000000000000
Sometimes it's considered an indeterminate form, particularly in cases
thta involve lim [f(x)/g(x)] where lim f(x) = lim g(x) = 0. In other
cases, x^0 = 1 holds for all x, even x = 0. It's a case where it
depends on what you prefer to emphasize.
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