The laws of exponents apply to positive real numbers and and non-negative integers and . With proper attention to exceptional cases they may be extended to all real numbers and with even more care to complex numbers.
The number is as indeterminate as , because , and as such is properly a part of the study of limits in calculus, but to simplify statements in algebra it is sometimes convenient to formally define to be 1.
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