Hacker News Reader

What is "^ 0" in general, that it "makes" 1 "out of" 2, 3, 4, etc?

using the definition in the article where X^n = 1 * X * X ...

x^2 = 1XX x^1 = 1*X x^0 = 1

Yes, for sure. My question was rhetorical, trying to drive intuition away from "But I'm starting with a zero, how do I get anything else?"