Re^2: Strange Logic in Power of arithmetic

Wow, nice variety of different results.... My version was:


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It seems to indicate there is some kind of glitch with my implementation. Maybe it's time to upgrade. Thanks for your inputs.

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Re^3: Strange Logic in Power of arithmetic by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 27, 2016 at 13:00 UTC
Wow, nice variety of different results Note that -1.#IND, nan, -nan and NaN are just different ways of denoting the same value - namely "not a number". Cheers, Rob	[reply]