Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> writes: > decimal.InvalidOperation: 0 ** 0 > > I'd file a bug report but I'm anticipating some rational (heh) > explanation. Any ideas?
First note that it's explicitly documented as an invalid operation <URL:file:///usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/decimal.html#decimal.InvalidOperation>. So someone has at least thought about it and deliberately decided it should be so. Why that should be, I don't know; I think the correct behaviour is for ‘0 ** 0 == 1’. But perhaps someone else has a better explanation for why Decimal should behave differently from ‘int’ and ‘float’ here. -- \ “I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it | `\ on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I | _o__) could only stutter in Spanish.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
