I am stunned that this simple misunderstanding of mine ended in a mathematical clash of a sort. :) You guys really blew me away wih your mathematical knowledge. And also the 0**0 is a thing I've never thought about trying, until now that is. If the mathematical rule is that EVERYTHING raised to the power of 0 is 1, then we should accept that, even in the case of 0**0. This is just the way it is.
I have two another interesting things to discuss about, for which I'll open new posts on this group. Look for "Python doesn't recognize quote types" and "Python, are you ill?". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list