Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 2005-03-12 02:59:46 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > You probably noticed that in the polynomial expansion, you are using | > an integer power -- which everybody agrees on yield 1 at the limit. | > | > I'm tlaking about 0^0, when you look at the limit of function x^y | > -- which is closer to cpow() tgan powi(). Did you miss that? | | When one uses the power notation in mathematics, one (almost) never | says when the context is a function R x R -> R or R x Z -> R or | whatever.
That is (almost) absolutely false. | The problem is the same in ISO C99 (and probably other | languages), Other languages do make the distinction. That C99 did not have the syntax for that is a defect rather than virtue. Examples have been provided, but I guess you prefer to ignore them. -- Gaby
