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Zero, negative and fractional powers

In the previous pages, we only looked at positive whole number powers. We can also find zero, negative and fractional powers. The rules below apply to these powers.

 

PowerAnswerExamples
a0140 = 11000 = 1370 = 1

Anything to the power 0 is equal to 1.

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