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Don Blazys
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Does one raised to an undefined power "equal" anything?
A commonly heard property of unity is "One raised to any power equals one", or:
1^(x)=1
Another well known fact is that "One raised to the power of infinity is an indeterminate form", or:
1^(INFINITY) is "INDETERMINATE".
But what happens if the exponent of unity is "undefined", "nonsensical", "non-existent" and "disallowed", as in the expression:
1^(2/0).
Can such an expression ever mean anything?
A commonly heard property of unity is "One raised to any power equals one", or:
1^(x)=1
Another well known fact is that "One raised to the power of infinity is an indeterminate form", or:
1^(INFINITY) is "INDETERMINATE".
But what happens if the exponent of unity is "undefined", "nonsensical", "non-existent" and "disallowed", as in the expression:
1^(2/0).
Can such an expression ever mean anything?