as long as the polynomial x^0 continues to evaluate to 1 at x=0, i'm happy with defining 0^0 to be whatever.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > In SAGE until now 0^0 gave 1 as answer. We are almost certainly going to > change > this to raise an ArithmeticError. Does anybody have any strong > feelings about this? > By the way, Magma, PARI, Gap, and Maple all give 1 as the output for 0^0. > Mathematica and Maxima both raise an error. > > -- William > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://www.williamstein.org > > > ============================================================= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfIhFhelm8 http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html RON PAUL 2008 http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
