0^0 = 1? Exploring 0^0 in 5 Levels from Exponents to Math Major

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What is 0^0? Let's explore the value of 0^0 in 5 levels, ranging from Euler's definition from the 1700s to Calculus and beyond.
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00:00 Introduction
00:20 0^0 in the 1700s
01:17 Algebra
03:21 Polynomials
05:02 Calculus
06:51 Extending x^y
08:07 Sponsor Message

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  • @DrSeanGroathouse
    @DrSeanGroathouse3 ай бұрын

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  • @mozg_
    @mozg_3 ай бұрын

    Euler defined 0^0 as 1 - this argument is enough for me.

  • @johnhernandez1364

    @johnhernandez1364

    3 ай бұрын

    He is the master of us all

  • @mulerseifu8824

    @mulerseifu8824

    3 ай бұрын

    Exactly🙏😊

  • @whyre69

    @whyre69

    3 ай бұрын

    yes

  • @KahlieNiven

    @KahlieNiven

    3 ай бұрын

    Rocco Si Fredi defined sex. this argument is enough for me. (cock shorter than 19cm is a nono) was with humor, but there is many ways to consider a problem.

  • @Pineapple-bs1jo

    @Pineapple-bs1jo

    3 ай бұрын

    a^0=a*0+1 a^1=a*1+0

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid3 ай бұрын

    Any product that contains at least one 0 is equal to 0. 0^0 clearly contains zero zeros 😄

  • @sereya666

    @sereya666

    3 ай бұрын

    What about 1*0?

  • @swenji9113

    @swenji9113

    3 ай бұрын

    I think they meant "any product that contains at least one 0 is equal to 0" lol

  • @unvergebeneid

    @unvergebeneid

    3 ай бұрын

    @@swenji9113 sorry, yeah. Got myself confused there with all the zeros and ones 😄 It's fixed now though, thanks!

  • @AliceObscura

    @AliceObscura

    3 ай бұрын

    Obviously math is not directly connected to reality in the way physics is, but sometimes a good way to think about math is to use a tangible example. If we take 0! We know that that equals 1. How is that possible when we usually do factorials by multiplying every positive number down to 1 from the n! ? So, 3!=3*2*1=6. 2!=2*1=2. 1!=1*1=1...but 0! Still equals one...how is that possible? Well, if you use a tangible example, imagine that you have three unique items and you want to arrange them in a certain way. There are six options. If you have two items, there are two ways to do so. If you have one item, there is only one way to do so. If you have no items, there is still one way to arrange them...by not arranging anything. Likewise with 0^0=1. If we consider the presenter's point again, there is still one way to organize a set with zero elements: as an empty set. You can think of this almost as a riddle in real life. How do you make $0 selling cupcakes? There's one way to do it: don't sell any cupcakes. How many ways are there to guarantee that you never, ever under any circumstances lose a game of chess? One: never play chess. It's a little unsatisfactory because it sounds more like a trick question than a valid analysis, but I hope that analogy helps. My apologies if it's confusing, annoying, both or TMI. If you disagree, I also understand. Philosophically, it's unappealing, even if it is logically consistent on some level.

  • @unvergebeneid

    @unvergebeneid

    3 ай бұрын

    @@AliceObscura I'm not entirely sure why you wrote an entire essay here but yes, the empty product argument was also in the 0! video. Only in that case, there's no deeper argument that contradicts it.

  • @capefry8323
    @capefry83233 ай бұрын

    Can you PLEASE do the fundamental theorem of calculus in five levels? Or why the antiderivative gives the area under a curve? I Think this would be a fantastic video Idea that I would grossly enjoy as someone talking Multivariate Calculus

  • @DrSeanGroathouse

    @DrSeanGroathouse

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the idea! I added it to my list

  • @oafkad
    @oafkad3 ай бұрын

    I presume you use a prompter. You've got it at like the perfect distance. Your eyes basically never shift which makes it feel less weird. A lot of folks got that thing like 3 inches from their face and you see their eyes darting around. I think that adds to the casual chat feeling of these videos. Really enjoy them.

  • @MagicGonads
    @MagicGonads3 ай бұрын

    0^0 = 1 is the only valid choice if you were to assign it a value, so that it aligns with the natural construction of exponential categories A^B is the category of all functors from category B to category A, and (at least) where |A| and |B| are natural numbers, |A|^|B| represents the size of this category, and 0 is the size of the category of no elements, so 0^0 is the size of the category of all functors from the empty category to the empty category, and there is only one such functor, the identity functor, so 0^0 = 1.

  • @samueldeandrade8535

    @samueldeandrade8535

    3 ай бұрын

    Humph. Did you invoke category theory for this? Just to generalize the problem, right? Because the conventions about the empty set are the set analogous of the conventions about zero. People insist on making this a big deal. It makes no sense.

  • @mesplin3

    @mesplin3

    3 ай бұрын

    How does one extend x^y from natural numbers to other number systems? For example, how would (1/2)^(1/2) be defined?

  • @MagicGonads

    @MagicGonads

    3 ай бұрын

    @@mesplin3 you don't need to do that, this is pre-calculus, foundational. Just choose an exponential definition that aligns on the naturals and obeys the additive rule e.g. a^b * a^c = a^(b+c). In the reals we have that a^b = e^ln(a)b = e^(floor(ln(a)b)) * e^{ln(a)b} where {.} is the fractional part, so you just need a definition for e^x for x in (0,1) and multiply it by e^n for integer n, such a definition can be obtained from a limit or from an infinite series. It's more complicated in other algebras like the complex numbers, or for matrices etc.

  • @MagicGonads

    @MagicGonads

    3 ай бұрын

    @@samueldeandrade8535 it's the same when talking about sets yes, since these are all 'small' categories. I suggest this should be the "Math Major" level though.

  • @samueldeandrade8535

    @samueldeandrade8535

    3 ай бұрын

    @@mesplin3 do you know how we usually define (1/2)^(1/2)? Or any power a^x.

  • @KahlieNiven
    @KahlieNiven3 ай бұрын

    to make it short, 0^0 = 1 mostly, but not in analysis where 0^0 is undefined.

  • @__christopher__

    @__christopher__

    2 ай бұрын

    This video makes a very common error: There is absolutely no requirement that functions must be continuous. It's nice if they are, but if you cannot extend a function *continuously* it doesn't mean you cannot extend it at all, nor that it is necessarily undesirable to do it. You just need to remember that for discontinuous functions, the limit (if it exists) does not necessarily equal the function value.

  • @JoaoLima-pq1hm
    @JoaoLima-pq1hm28 күн бұрын

    What a beautiful video. Thank you.

  • @CatLoverNightshade
    @CatLoverNightshade3 ай бұрын

    You should make a vid on why a negative times a negative equals a positive number

  • @Viki13

    @Viki13

    3 ай бұрын

    He has a video on that

  • @master_of_blinchiki

    @master_of_blinchiki

    3 ай бұрын

    > turn around > turn around again > wtph im facing the same direction

  • @AmeliusDex

    @AmeliusDex

    3 ай бұрын

    That's a fairly easy one, fortunately.

  • @jovancarrero2090

    @jovancarrero2090

    3 ай бұрын

    •(-a)(-b)=(-a)(-b)+a(0) •=(-a)(-b)+a(b-b) •=(-a)(-b)+ab-ab, (Common Fact: -b •=-b(a-a)+ab=ab, (a-a)is equal to 0 Therefore: (-a)(-b)=ab

  • @fullfungo

    @fullfungo

    3 ай бұрын

    @@master_of_blinchiki Now all that’s left to prove is that 180° rotations in 3D space around a fixed axis are bijective with the subset of the multiplicative group of the real numbers (or integers) that is comprised of all negative multiplicands. Step 2: Profit..?

  • @pawel_maslanka
    @pawel_maslanka3 ай бұрын

    imo the best argument is when plugging x=0 into the geometric series or the Maclaurin expansion of e^x

  • @malto_only
    @malto_only3 ай бұрын

    Here is my justification when I was in 7th grade: 1 is a ghost, meaning where you can't see it, there is 1. Let me explain Take expression 67x , you can see no 1, but there is because 1(67x) is also same thing. Another example, see this 27, again you see no one, but 27 = 27/1 you can see 1 as dominator here. So my conclusion was a⁰ = ______ (nothing) no it's nothing there, so the ghost 1 is there. This was my funny thought and I am not trying to argue that this is correct explanation

  • @MhmdMC

    @MhmdMC

    3 ай бұрын

    You were a brilliant child if you figured out how 1 is the empty product. Also one of the reasons we define 0! as 1

  • @bayleev7494

    @bayleev7494

    3 ай бұрын

    haha this is exactly the reasoning behind empty operations, so there's a lot of truth to it. for the exact same reason, we usually define: • the sum of no numbers to be 0 • the product of no numbers to be 1 • the union of no sets to be the empty set • the intersection of no sets to be the entire domain (these last two also allow you to get rid of one of the axioms for a topology on a set)

  • @Nosirt

    @Nosirt

    3 ай бұрын

    Than you can just define 0 as a ghost in additive. So 67x is Same as 67x+0. 27= 27+0. You are only doing the 1 times 27 because by convention we leave out the symbol for multiplication but it’s still there. There is no difference between why the ghost property of 1 should be limited to only multiple and division.

  • @malto_only

    @malto_only

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Nosirt the reason 0 is not defined as ghost is 27 + 0 = 0, and we need extra plus symbol here. And what i mean is when you can't see, 27 you can also write it is (27) and now you can't see 1 but it can be there as 1(27)

  • @Nosirt

    @Nosirt

    3 ай бұрын

    @@malto_only 27+0= 27, not 0. Also the plus sign does not matter as the reason why you don’t put multiple sign is by convention. That convention can simply change. 1(27) has a hidden 1*27 there. It is not a fundamental thing in math, just convention of how we write multiple. With this, once again, when you write (27) you can insert a ghost +0 anywhere there too.

  • @geraldeichstaedt
    @geraldeichstaedt3 ай бұрын

    In the set theoretical foundations of mathematics, 0 := {}, and for sets A, B, A^B is the set of all maps from B to A. Since there is exactly one map from the empty set 0 := {} to itself, 0^0 = 1. Hence 0^0 = 1 for the natural numbers, and with their embedding in the real numbers, 0^0=1 for the real numbers, as well. The limit argument for 0^0 is as invalid as it is for sgn(0). The power function x^y is not continuous in (0;0). Therefore the limit doesn't return an answer to the question about the value of 0^0. The empty product is the terminal object 1 for all categories with a terminal object 1 and a product x. That would be level 6.

  • @MagicGonads

    @MagicGonads

    3 ай бұрын

    Excellent

  • @derblaue
    @derblaue2 ай бұрын

    This is the one time mathematicians take the physics approach: 0^0 = 1 is convenient but not in all cases "correct"

  • @mbapum6363

    @mbapum6363

    2 ай бұрын

    They really don't. At the moment it is agreed that 0^0 is undefined.

  • @kenzou776
    @kenzou7763 ай бұрын

    You should remind people to subscribe! Your channel is phenomenal!

  • @DrSeanGroathouse

    @DrSeanGroathouse

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks so much! Definitely, I'll have to remember that

  • @Bodyknock
    @Bodyknock3 ай бұрын

    A minor note, but to recap in the Algebra section at 1:52 the argument is that for any natural numbers k and n, nᵏ = nᵏ⁺¹ / n, so in particular n⁰ = n¹ / n = 1. However, similar to what happened in the first section, if n=0 then you are calculating 0⁰ = 0¹ / 0 = 0/0 which is undefined. Mind you, I'm not disputing that 1 is the "best" definition for 0⁰ when you want it defined, it obviously is, but the algebraic argument above has the same flaw as the algebraic argument in part 1.

  • @allozovsky

    @allozovsky

    3 ай бұрын

    We may stick to the definition of exponentiation with a natural exponent: a⁰ = 1, aⁿ⁺¹ = aⁿ·a, so for any base a we have a⁰ = 1 by definition (as an empty product with no factors, which is equal to the multiplicative identity). This way we no longer get into the trap of dividing by zero, though the property aᵐ⁺ⁿ = aᵐ·aⁿ for all natural m, n still holds.

  • @Bodyknock

    @Bodyknock

    3 ай бұрын

    @@allozovsky Yes, that does get around the issue in the video where he’s dividing by zero. Although as a small caveat note that if we instead defined 0⁰ = 0 then exponent addition still works. (I.e. if a=0 then aⁿaᵐ = aᵐ⁺ⁿ for all m and n including if either or both are 0.) It’s not as pretty as simply defining it to be 1 for purposes of factoring but it’s just as consistent in this context.

  • @MuffinsAPlenty

    @MuffinsAPlenty

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah, there are much better justifications for the empty product being equal to 1 than that argument.

  • @NickKravitz
    @NickKravitz3 ай бұрын

    You snuck in level 6 (programming) into the Algebra section. Suffice it to say no one likes to get #Num, NaN or ArithmeticException as part of their calculation. The infinitesimal in programming (the smallest positive floating point number we can store in memory) is currently around 2^-127; raising this to itself indeed gives an answer of 1. Euler would have loved python.

  • @geraldeichstaedt

    @geraldeichstaedt

    3 ай бұрын

    Just ask Haskell for 0^0 or 0**0. The limits don't tell pretty much anything about values at discontinuities.

  • @KahlieNiven

    @KahlieNiven

    3 ай бұрын

    the error would be to assume that maths get satisfied from discreet calculations. maths don't care about computers limitations. A theorem is absolute, whatever the number of decimals. If it requires comps, then it's not a satisfying theorem. (and whatever the language, Euler would have loved the comp...and in my opinion he would have prefered Lisp, Scheme, or Prolog languages)

  • @markstavros7505
    @markstavros75052 ай бұрын

    0^0=1 explains why an infinite power tower does not converge as x approaches 0. If 0^0 were equal to 0, then the infinite power tower would converge.

  • @samuelyigzaw
    @samuelyigzaw3 ай бұрын

    We shouldn't ignore indeterminate forms when we come across them. Their geometric significance holds so much beauty. Just look at a graph of z = x/y or z = x^y on Geogebra. We don't ignore the two roots of the equation x^2 = 1, even though that's also an indeterminate equation, so we shouldn't ignore any other indeterminate form either.

  • @makhnoboi1996

    @makhnoboi1996

    3 ай бұрын

    In a sense, but i is actually a very well behaved number to add. It keeps lots of the properties of the real numbers like 0*x=0, ab=ba, and 1/x always being well-defined, in contrast to adding a number defined as 1/0, which would break the first property (and I think maybe the third? Anyway losing the first is already sufficiently annoying)

  • @samuelyigzaw

    @samuelyigzaw

    3 ай бұрын

    @@makhnoboi1996 what does i have to do with what I was saying? It's perfectly fine. I'm comparing the multi-valued equation x^2 = 1 to the multi-valued equation 0*x = 0. I'm saying we shouldn't treat only one of them seriously and dismiss the other one.

  • @swenji9113

    @swenji9113

    3 ай бұрын

    Although i'd like to agree with you, I'm not sure what your point is. Do you think that indeterminate forms are often ignored? What do you mean by that? That they are not studied or discussed enough? I absolutely agree that indeterminate forms are very interesting, I just feel like there are way too many discussions around indeterminate forms where noone defines what they're talking about...

  • @samuelyigzaw

    @samuelyigzaw

    3 ай бұрын

    @@swenji9113 yes, the indeterminate forms that can equate to the entire extended complex plane, i.e. 0/0 and its cousins, are always ignored and thrown away. And yes, they are not studied and discussed enough. I understand Wheel Algebra studies them, but I'm not sure that's the only way to make sense of them. Some indeterminate forms are different from others. For instance, 0/0 ∈ ℂ∪{∞}, whereas 1^∞ ∈ ℝ≥0. I believe we should be looking into the structures that come about when graphing functions that reveal these indeterminate forms, and we should especially incorporate the Riemann Sphere in order to capture the true essence of all of this.

  • @swenji9113

    @swenji9113

    3 ай бұрын

    @@samuelyigzaw I see, thank you for your answer!

  • @Roma-kg9ld
    @Roma-kg9ldАй бұрын

    Question: if you look at the function f(x) = x^x, it seems to approach zero when nearing zero from the positive side, until it for some reason turns around at around x≈0.37. Why is that? Why is 0.37^0.37 smaller than both 0.3^0.3 and 0.4^0.4?

  • @01juniorpen
    @01juniorpen3 ай бұрын

    Haven't watched the video yet, but here's my take: I believe n^0 is essentialy just n/n, therefore if n=0, then it's like saying 0/0, which is indeterminate. Therefore, 0^0 is an indeterminate form.

  • @swenji9113

    @swenji9113

    3 ай бұрын

    Well n^0 = n/n is not true for n=0 precisely. This "definition" of n^0 comes from an understanding of powers starting at 1 and possibly going back, but in general, we can define an empty product to be the the neutral element for multiplication regardless of what it is the empty product of. It is like saying that for n>0, n = n²/n and therefore 0 = 0/0 is indeterminate form

  • @ElderEagle42
    @ElderEagle423 ай бұрын

    You should make a video about why 0/0 is undefined

  • @MattBowser129

    @MattBowser129

    3 ай бұрын

    He did, go check it out

  • @samueldeandrade8535

    @samueldeandrade8535

    3 ай бұрын

    Man, people LOOOOVE an useless discussion, huh?

  • @fullfungo

    @fullfungo

    3 ай бұрын

    @@samueldeandrade8535it’s not useless. It teaches you generalisable methods of how to deal with operator extensions and how to prove if they are well-defined or not.

  • @tausiftaha12

    @tausiftaha12

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@fullfungo eh, still seems pretty useless, cool trivia, but there are better ways to teach that...

  • @samueldeandrade8535

    @samueldeandrade8535

    3 ай бұрын

    @@fullfungo listen, it is. Most of mathematics is useless, just like most of art, just like most of philosophy. And that's awesome, because this is the biggest reason why we like them. So my "useless" accusation is already pretty fair. Now, 0/0 is NOT something really interesting. It is very easy to understand it, but people insist on treating it as something mystical. About your "generalisable methods of how to deal with operator extensions ... well-defined or not", man, I studied Math, do you think you are fooling me with all that? With some big words? Please, try again. Your statement is as deceitful as "we invented comolex numbers so quadratic equations would have solutions urrr durrr".

  • @fedos
    @fedos3 ай бұрын

    The fake torso with real head and arms is unsettling.

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    @matheodaniloalvitreslopez31593 ай бұрын

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  • @kcz6865
    @kcz68652 ай бұрын

    What does lim(e^-1/t)^t = (e^-1/0)^0 = e^0/0 have in common with 0^0?

  • @akin0m

    @akin0m

    2 ай бұрын

    The function inside the parentheses approaches 0, as does the exponent outside. So if you wrote this as f(x)^g(x), with f(x)=exp(-1/t) being the term inside the parentheses and g(x)=t being the exponent, you get the indeterminate form 0^0 if you 'plug' the limit in. This shows that if f and g change at different rates, the indeterminate form 0^0 can result in different answers. An even simpler example might be lim(x->0) 0^x = 0, but lim(x->0+) x^x = 1.

  • @sbares
    @sbares3 ай бұрын

    The fact that the 0^0 is an indeterminate form is just another way of saying that the function (x, y) -> x^y does not extend continuously to (0,0). But who said it had to be continuous anyway? It is entirely irrelevant to whether or not defining 0^0=1 is a good idea (it is).

  • @MagicGonads

    @MagicGonads

    3 ай бұрын

    very true

  • @quetiro1587
    @quetiro15873 ай бұрын

    Can you do the next of why a^0 = 1? pleeeaaaseeee

  • @DrSeanGroathouse

    @DrSeanGroathouse

    3 ай бұрын

    I added it to my list, thanks!

  • @geraldeichstaedt

    @geraldeichstaedt

    3 ай бұрын

    it's the empty product. Wasn't that mentioned in the video?

  • @JJ_TheGreat
    @JJ_TheGreat3 ай бұрын

    In this video, you talk about x^0… But what about 0^x? Thanks.

  • @swenji9113

    @swenji9113

    3 ай бұрын

    For any positive integer n, 0^n = 0. Now for calculus purposes, one can extend (x,y) -> x^y continuously at (0,a) to be 0 for any a>0. Such an extension isn't possible at (0,0). So there is a canonic way to define 0^x for x>0, but it's way more complicated than integer powers, for which we define x^0 to be 1 for any number x. This doesn't mean you can't study 0^x. However, there is a very good reason to think about x^0 first when you see any number raised to the 0

  • @lerarosalene

    @lerarosalene

    3 ай бұрын

    limit of 0^x as x approaches 0 from the right is 0 It's kinda mentioned in part 5 where x^y is discussed.

  • @stelisc9326
    @stelisc93263 ай бұрын

    I think the best argument for why 0^0=1 is when you solve x^x=1, you get x=1 and x=0.

  • @andrewpang5111

    @andrewpang5111

    3 ай бұрын

    WolframAlpha disagrees, only real solution to x^x=1 is x=1

  • @stelisc9326

    @stelisc9326

    3 ай бұрын

    @andrewpang5111 wolfram alpha disagrees because 0^0 is controversial. However, if you do the algebra: x^x=1 Take the natural log of both sides: xlnx=0 therefore x=0 and lnx=0 meaning the solutions are 0 and 1 this does however require the assumption that 0ln0=0 and ln0 is undefined

  • @bayleev7494

    @bayleev7494

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@stelisc9326yeah lol this proof essentially supplants one indeterminate form for another; taking x to 0 makes ln(x) approach -infinity, so we're left with 0*infinity. interestingly enough, though, this is often defined in measure theory to be 0, so in that context i suppose it would work.

  • @RajKumar-kj9xy
    @RajKumar-kj9xy3 ай бұрын

    One doubt: 1+2+3+.....∞ is equal to -1/12?

  • @swenji9113

    @swenji9113

    3 ай бұрын

    Nope, the term on the left isn't defined. If you stated it with a sequence, then the sequence diverges to infinity for the standard definition of limits

  • @adw1z

    @adw1z

    3 ай бұрын

    No, the analytic continuation of the Riemann Zeta function evaluated at -1 is -1/12

  • @gustavorolim4712
    @gustavorolim47123 ай бұрын

    bro looks like howard wolowitz

  • @TBOTSS
    @TBOTSS3 ай бұрын

    0^0 in cardinal arithmetic is 1.

  • @JJ_TheGreat
    @JJ_TheGreat3 ай бұрын

    0:12 Why not split the difference and call it 1/2??!

  • @its_lucky252

    @its_lucky252

    3 ай бұрын

    because its not equal to 1/2

  • @adw1z
    @adw1z3 ай бұрын

    It’s just stupid, why do all math rules go out the window with this one example 0^0?? The limits 0^x and x^0 don’t agree and that should be that to rule it indeterminate, we’re not going around saying 0/0 = 1 now are we?

  • @bayleev7494

    @bayleev7494

    3 ай бұрын

    indeterminacy is a statement about the limits of operations, not the operations themselves. if you think about it, any justification for saying 0^0 = 0 (or anything other than 1) relies on thinking of what a function gets close to. however, there are plenty of justifications for 0^0 = 1 which only talk about fundamental definitions of operations (eg the tuple description and the empty product in this video). that simply can't be said for 0/0; if x = 0/0 then 0x=0, so x can be any number. it's not that we're throwing the rules out. the math "rules" (ugh there aren't rules in math but whatever) say that you should define things according to what feels most natural or convenient. it's inconvenient and unnatural to define 0/0 (or most other indeterminate forms), but it can be very convenient and very natural to define 0^0=1.

  • @geraldeichstaedt

    @geraldeichstaedt

    3 ай бұрын

    0^0 must be 1 as long as we accept the set theoretical or category theoretical foundations of mathematics. There is exactly one map from 0 ::= {} to itself, hence the exponential set 0^0 has exactly one element. Hence 0^0=1. Limts don't define function values of discontinuous functions. sgn(0) = 0 = | sgn(0) |, while | sgn(x) | = 1, for all other x.

  • @doirit
    @doirit2 ай бұрын

    0^0 is undefined, because it also can be -1

  • @alephnull8377

    @alephnull8377

    22 күн бұрын

    How can it be -1?

  • @doirit

    @doirit

    22 күн бұрын

    @@alephnull8377 negative numbers ^0 = -1

  • @mbapum6363
    @mbapum63633 ай бұрын

    Every single explanation in the video has a flaw. Literally. every. single. one.

  • @yuseifudo6075

    @yuseifudo6075

    3 ай бұрын

    No

  • @s-codes14

    @s-codes14

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@yuseifudo6075he has a point though

  • @bebektoxic2136

    @bebektoxic2136

    3 ай бұрын

    Idk man, probably you could explain all of them?

  • @bebektoxic2136

    @bebektoxic2136

    3 ай бұрын

    Because I found (1/100000)^(1/100000) is close to zero, if u make the denominator smaller on each parentheses it will get even closer to 1...

  • @donpedro00769

    @donpedro00769

    3 ай бұрын

    Wasn't that the point of the video? No matter how you explain it 0⁰ never really makes sense, but it is still defined as 1 sometimes since it avoids a lot of unnecessary complications lol

  • @jakehobrath7721
    @jakehobrath77213 ай бұрын

    0^0 does not represent anything, it is just an unfortunate edge case possibility due to our choice of notation. For functions or series that require 0^0 to equal 1, there is a different expression that explicitly describes what it represents in that context, like he showed in the video during the combinatorics portion regarding sets (0^0 means {}). So my argument is that 0^0 requires context to mean something, IOW by itself it’s… indeterminate.

  • @geraldeichstaedt

    @geraldeichstaedt

    3 ай бұрын

    There is exactly one map from the empty set 0 to the empty set 0. Hence the set 0^0 of all maps from 0 to 0 has exactly one element. Hence 0^0 = 1. Set theory is the standard foundation of mathematics. If you use category theory to found mathematics, you get the same conclusion.

  • @denverrsouthers5531
    @denverrsouthers55313 ай бұрын

    0/0=1

  • @swenji9113

    @swenji9113

    3 ай бұрын

    There is no natural algebraic interpretation of 0/0 that makes it 1. If you think in terms of limits, then it's not true in general either

  • @denverrsouthers5531

    @denverrsouthers5531

    3 ай бұрын

    @swenji9113 any number divided by itself is 1. I'm not serious about math but I think it's ridiculous that 0!=1 and 0^0=1 but saying 0/0=1 is going too far

  • @swenji9113

    @swenji9113

    3 ай бұрын

    @@denverrsouthers5531 lol I agree, it's funny

  • @MagicGonads

    @MagicGonads

    3 ай бұрын

    @@denverrsouthers5531 it depends on the 'order' of the 0, when we're talking about meromorphic functions (aka laurent series, laurent polynomials, rational functions etc.). It's only 1 when the order of both the zeroes are the same. This shows up when we want to factorise or cancel factors out from a rational function and we need to consider multiplicities of roots of both the numerator and denominator. Notice that when we cancel we are doing it purely algebraically, not using calculus or limits (though the justifications are derived from complex analysis, the algebra of these polynomials is consistent). Basically for some field F (usually the complex numbers) then we extend the field to contain zeroes and isolated singularities of each positive integer order (say this is G) and consider the algebra of its rational functions over some formal variables G(x,y,...). As an example, you can say unequivocally that x/x = 1, but x^2/x = x, this is correct in the algebra. However, plugging in x = 0 we get 0/0 = 1 and 0/0 = 0 which doesn't work, so you have to remember where the zeroes come from rather than assigning 0/0 a particular value. Instead we would have to write it 0/0 = 1 and 0^2/0 = 0, but this only works since we have 0^2 =/= 0 which is not generally something you want in all situations. In contrast, 0^0 doesn't have any problems algebraically when assigned 1, you just have to remember that the value under the limit is not necessarily the value of the original function at that point under its domain of definition (so functions that hold values of 0^0 are not necessarily continuous, where before they wouldn't even be defined there without holding a value for 0^0). And 0^0 = 1 is the only valid choice if you were to assign it a value, so that it aligns with the natural construction of exponential categories A^B is the category of all functors from category B to category A, and |A|^|B| represents the size of this category, and 0 is the size of the category of no elements, so 0^0 is the size of the category of all functors from the empty category to the empty category, and there is only one such functor, the identity functor, so 0^0 = 1 (if you must give 0^0 a value). 0! = 1 is actually just a simple, noncontroversial result: permutations must be between 1 and 2^n for the size of the set, so between 1 and 2^0 for empty sets, so empty sets have 1 (between 1 and 1) permutation. This is because permutations are actions on a set and produce a subset of the set (part of the powerset which has 2^n elements), and there is always the identity permutation (does nothing to the set). You can also think of both 0^0 and 0! as empty products, which are 1 since 1 is the multiplicative identity (the empty sequential operation if it exists must always be an identity of that operation, e.g. the empty sum is 0 since 0 is the additive identity). But 0/0 cannot be thought of this way as it's not formed by a product.

  • @slushpupp9793

    @slushpupp9793

    3 ай бұрын

    @@denverrsouthers5531bro u know that division is repeated subtraction right, so if u divide 0 by 0 u can subtract it both infinitely and 0 times so there is nog definition

  • @mbapum6363
    @mbapum63633 ай бұрын

    You literally just make the same mistake except with more and more complex requirements. Level 3, 4, and 5 all offer the same proof, except in different levels of complexity.

  • @yuseifudo6075

    @yuseifudo6075

    3 ай бұрын

    You are wrong

  • @chanjesse5236

    @chanjesse5236

    3 ай бұрын

    No

  • @s-codes14

    @s-codes14

    3 ай бұрын

    Let him cook 😅...continue good sir

  • @erin_rose0

    @erin_rose0

    3 ай бұрын

    how about instead of just saying "uh you're wrong actually" you provide your actual argument? otherwise just don't even leave a comment, let alone two

  • @donpedro00769

    @donpedro00769

    3 ай бұрын

    Ma man, why do you have 2 comments and none of them actually explain or even mean anything? At least give good arguments lol. If thousands of mathematicians struggle to define 0⁰ without any flaws, why would you know how to do it. Literally the whole video is all about why there is no definitive answer to what 0⁰ equals💀