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In article <mailman.55.1178045196.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, A Soare wrote:
> What determined the mathematicians to give the definition of x^0 = 1, not defined for x=0 ?

Discussion of this point at 
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sci-math-faq/specialnumbers/0to0/

-- 
Maarten Bergvelt