Re: power overflow

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On 4 Jun 2002, at 7:27, dm31 at uow.edu.au wrote:

> 
> |Just a question on power(0,0),                                       
> |I thought any number raised to power 0 was 1,                        
> |is this the only exceprion on that rule?                             
> 
> Yes,                                        
> Otherwise you could prove really stupid stuff like                    
> 
> infinity - 1 = 0                                        

Or 
infinity + 1 = -infinity

Kat

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