What is the correlation coefficient of y =0

A horizontal set of data has a correlation coefficient of what.
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When y=0, the value of x is not relevant because, no matter what value x takes, y stays at 0. There is therefore no correlation and the coefficient r=0. The same applies to y=a, where a is a constant.

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