https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/x0267d782:cc-6th-exponents-and-order-of-operations/x0267d782:powers-of-whole-numbers/v/the-zeroth-power 2022-11-16T04:22:43.7414897Z The zeroth power Sal Khan considers two different ways to think about why a number raised to the zero power equals one: 1) if 2^3 = 1x2x2x2, then 2^0 = 1 times zero twos, which equals 1. 2) By following a pattern of decreasing an exponent by one by dividing by the base, we find that when we get to the 0 power, we end up dividing the base by itself, resulting in 1. video https://cdn.kastatic.org/googleusercontent/dva64s1lFcGY7oM0eAL8tNvthG-waZS4kuSx8SuVi06W4aHiU2jXygN0EZpBhMMwr_Frq7UheeqtjfBZzWeilWL7 The zeroth power Sal Khan considers two different ways to think about why a number raised to the zero power equals one: 1) if 2^3 = 1x2x2x2, then 2^0 = 1 times zero twos, which equals 1. 2) By following a pattern of decreasing an exponent by one by dividing by the base, we find that when we get to the 0 power, we end up dividing the base by itself, resulting in 1. https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/TWv6f7rwjF4.mp4/TWv6f7rwjF4.mp4 272 Powers of whole numbers https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/x0267d782:cc-6th-exponents-and-order-of-operations/x0267d782:powers-of-whole-numbers/e/exponents 2025-02-10T05:04:39.155459793Z Powers of whole numbers ​Practice taking positive whole-number exponents of non-negative whole numbers. Lindsay exercise