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Re: Possible error in bc
From: |
Harald Anlauf |
Subject: |
Re: Possible error in bc |
Date: |
12 Feb 2002 12:06:55 +0100 |
address@hidden (Dean Allen Provins) writes:
> Recently, when calculating some larger numbers, I had occasion (in my
> formulae) to compute 0^0 (i.e. zero tothe zero power). This produced
> the value 1 (one).
This is in accordance with the bc documentation:
"It should be noted that expr^0 will always return the value of 1."
> It was my understanding (and I checked my CRC math tables book, and
> also tried gcc in a simple test) that 0^0 should be 0 (zero).
I don't know how you fouled gcc into this, but this is clearly wrong.
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Ciao,
-ha