How does 1×1=1???!!! Certainly doesn't fit the standard definition of multiplying. What are the implications of this?
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Now do zero. Where does the apple go if not eaten?
You have one box, it has zero apples in it.
You have a thousand boxes, each has zero apples in it.
No matter how many boxes you have, you have zero apples.
Group of zero, a box with nothing in it. No matter what number you multiply that empty box by, the sum of the contents of that heap of empty boxes will be zero.