Possible to remap numeric keyboard to work on Macbook keyboard?

Hi everyone,
I'm just beginning to learn After Effects, and the most useful key in that program in my opinion is clicking the 0 on the numeric keypad to render a RAM preview. However, the Macbook Aluminum doesn't have an inset numeric keypad!
Does anyone know a workaround to be able to use the numeric keys? I'd really like to for example be able to hit Fn-0 and have that count as a 0 on a numeric keypad.

Thanks for that, but I was looking more for a program, some Terminal code, or a workaround that someone might know that would allow me to use these shortcuts on the keyboard I have now.

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