What is the result of 1 x 0 (“one times zero”)? The answer is zero, right?

Here is something to think about.

• What is “1” (one)? One is something. Something is not nothing. One is something. One fruit, one cup, one bee, one… something.
• What is “x” (times)? “x” is a symbol representing multiplication, which is the repeated addition of a copy of one of the numbers sitting on either side of the “x” symbol. 3 x 4 is the repeated addition of 3 four times (where “3” is the multiplicand and “4” is the multiplier), that is, 3 + 3 + 3 + 3, which results in 12. The same result can also be achieved by having “4” as the multiplicand and “3” as the multiplier, that is, 4 + 4 + 4, which also results in 12.
• What is “0” (zero)? Zero is nothing. The absence of something.

What is the result of 1 x 0 (“one times zero”)? Zero? Yes, it is zero. And it makes sense, right? Take “1” as the multiplicand and “0” as the multplier. That is, 1 + 0. What does that result in? Wait...

Take “0” as the multiplicand and “1” as the multplier. That is, 0 + 1. What does that result it? Hmmm…

Say it in plain English. “What is the result of adding something to nothing?” Nothing? No. It is something. So, what is the result of 1 x 0?