*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 668512 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668512
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 668512
Positive fractional power of zero is not undefined
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The problem seems to be that 0^(1/2) does give an error instead of zero (the
correct result), same for 0^0.1 and some other variants with 0^... I can
confirm this bug on Natty.
gcalctool seems to use the equality a^b = e^(ln(a) * b) to calculate the
result, which fails for a=0.
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problem in basic operation exponential
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