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When you multiply a number by a different number, you take as many groups of the first number as there are of the second number. For example, multiplying 2 by 3, you are taking three groups of 2. Three groups of two things are equal to six things; 2 times 3 = 6.

If you multiply by zero, you are taking zero groups of a number. Zero groups of something is nothing (zero).

So, applying this logic to the question...

Zero (0, nothing) multiplied by one, is one zero (i.e. one nothing!)

Zero (0, nothing) multiplied by three, is threenothings!

Zero (0, nothing) multiplied by three hundred, is three hundred nothings!

etc.

So, no matter how many nothings you have, you still have nothing!

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