On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:34:53AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: [ question and explanation elided ]
> And the reason I know all this - blame Abigail. > (a sig with ****** something which has the value 1. ie 0 ** 0, which perl is > treating as 1. I don't know enough serious maths to know if 0 ** 0 is well > defined. See perl6-language for more maths) 0 ** x and x ** 0 have different limits as x approaches 0, so if I recall correctly , 0 ** 0 is an indeterminate form, but it is generally accepted (I think) that 1 is the most useful answer because that makes little things like the binomial theorem work properly. Disclaimer - it's many years since I did any real maths. [ Now waiting for someone to say "it shows", and give a real answer. ] -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
