"Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | >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. | | Sure, but it's ALSO the mathematical rule that 0 raised to any power is 0.
That may be some people's (partial) rule but not everyone's. There is only agreement on 0 to a positive power. | Thus, there are multiple solutions to this problem, meaning that there is | NO solution to the problem. Only for some people. a**b := reduce(mul, [a]*b, 1) for all counts a and b is a simple, uniform, and useful rule. Do you have in mind any situations in which it is advantageous to have 0**0 undefined? tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
