My mistake. Are we talking about 0/0 ?
I was thinking 0/x. 0/0 is as Phil says, unknown until you differentiate.
1 is a nice answer as it is a nice average for a slope. Slope is a
positive fraction, and 1 is the middle number out of the positive
fractions. Not the mathematical way I know, but it
Age old question. From a purely mathematical standpoint, this is an
"indeterminate form" -- i.e. not strictly meaningful other than as a limit.
There are decent practical arguments, however, for assigning the value 1.
See http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0.to.0.power.html for some
references
I hope not.
0^x=0
x^0=1
looks like a good excuse for a nice looping unit test :) -10->10 for each,
cover the boundary case or some such.
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> Patch applied.
>
> Q: Is a zero fraction to the power of one == one ???
>
> If not, the code is wrong.
>
> S
Leave as is then
Stephen
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> My mistake. Are we talking a
Fraction class added to math subpackage, based on this class. Thanks.
Stephen
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> Here's Fractio
I've taken a quick look, some comments:
- I would like to see Fraction be immutable
final
fields are private final
get methods
- I would like to see if else statements with {} brackets to conform with
our coding standards
- I would like to see an Apache licence and package, to confir
