"Luis Zarrabeitia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Btw, there seems to be a math problem in python with exponentiation... | >>> 0**0 | 1 | That 0^0 should be a nan or exception, I guess, but not 1.
a**b is 1 multiplied by a, b times. 1 multiplied by 0 no times is 1. But there are unenlighted people who agree with you ;-) Wikipedia has a discussion of this. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list