On 2005-03-08, at 01:14, Robert Dewar wrote:
Marcin Dalecki wrote:On 2005-03-07, at 17:16, Chris Jefferson wrote:| This is why there is no reasonable | mathematical value for 0^0. |
That is true.It's not true because it's neither true nor false. It's a not well formulated statement. (Mathematically).
I disagree with this, we certainly agree that 0.0 ** negative value is undefined, i.e. that this is outside the domain of the ** function, and I think normally in mathematics one would say the same thing, and simply say that 0**0 is outside the domain of the function.
It's not a matter of reason it's a matter of definition. Thus the
statement "This is why there is no reasonable mathematical value for 0^0
is neither true nor false", has the same sense as saying that... well for example:
"rose bears fly very high". Just a random alliteration of terms not a statement and
thus neither true nor false because the concept of decisibility doesn't apply.
