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Re: Suggestion for 2.5

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <eu.lue at gmx.de> Feb 20, 2003
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Hi Christian,

you wrote:

> From: Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz>

[...]
>> Some other indeterminate forms are :
[...]
>> 0^0 (although MS Windows Calculator says 0^0=1, my Casio says "Math error"
>> 
>
> 	1 is correct, because epsilon^0 is always 1.
[...]

I disagree. It also could be said that 0^0 = 0, because 0^x = 0.
It cannot be decided, which of both rules _generally_ is "better":

"0^0 is undefined. Defining 0^0 = 1 allows some formulas to be expressed
simply (Knuth 1997, p. 56), although the same could be said for the
alternate definition 0^0 = 1 (Wells 1986, p. 26)."
                                [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Zero.html]

> CChris

Best regards,
   Juergen

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