RE: 0^0 = ?

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 14-Nov-2003, (Ted Harding) <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | Clearly, 0^0 is mathematically indeterminate.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | I don't think we'll ever get them to agree!
>
> Then I think it would probably be best to try to conform to the
> standards of other languages (hoping that there is some uniformity in
> their behavior).

Octave is currently returning 0^0 = 1, right?  Maybe we should keep it
that way or risk having many scripts/functions fail to work properly.  It
is certainly a reasonable value.  This thread started when someone stated
that he would like 0^0 to equal 1 in his code.

Mike



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