Stuart Brorson wrote: >>>>> math.pow(0, -1) >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> ValueError: math domain error > > Why isn't this one inf?
The standard says return inf and raise a divide-by-zero floating point exception. Since we can't do both in Python we sticked to the exception part. > Also, what do these specs say about 0^<complex>? See for yourself http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf The interesting information are in Annex F.9 and Annex G.6. So far we haven't dealt with complex powers and Python doesn't support 0.**1j yet. Christian _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
