EDIT: markup broke my operators In combinatorics and discrete probability, `0**0 = 1` is a useful convention, to the point that some books define a new version

EDIT: markup broke my operators In combinatorics and discrete probability, `0**0 = 1` is a useful convention, to the point that some books define a new version of the operator - let's call it `***` - and define `a***b = a**b` except that `0***0 = 1` and then use the new operator instead of exponentiation everywhere. (To be clear, `**` is exponentiation, I could write `a^b` but that is already XOR in my mind.) So one might as well overload the old one: tinyurl.com/zeropowerzero This causes no problems unless you're trying to do real (or complex) analysis. 1/0 can cause a few more problems, but if you know you're doing something where it's safe, it's like putting the Rust `unsafe` keyword in front of your proof and so promising you know what you're doing.