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Forum Name: Middle school
Topic ID: 113
Message ID: 4
#4, RE: Numbers raised to the power of 0
Posted by alexb on May-29-05 at 07:49 AM
In response to message #3
>let k=2^0
>taking log on both the sides

"taking log on both sides" already assumes that 2^0 has been previously defined. Thus what follows can't be considered as a proof, but, at best, as a motivation for the definition.

>log k=0.log2
>log k=o
>k=e^0
>k=1
>lly
>u can prove for oters with exceptions like infinity^0 etc...