Mark Dickinson added the comment: > This behavior seems to be required by the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification (http://speleotrove.com/decimal/daexcep.html )
Yes, exactly. The decimal module strictly follows that specification. I don't like the 0**0 -> NaN result much either (especially when we also have inf**0 -> 1), but it's what's specified. I've talked to Mike Cowlishaw (the author of the specification) about this particular issue, and the spec is not likely to change on this point. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23201> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
