Re: 0**0

There has been a long discussion on this indeterminate form of exponentials previously - See More Fun with Zero!, in particular the replies from ariels and tilly.

perl -le 'print+unpack("N",pack("B32","00000000000000000000001000011000"))'

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Re: Re: 0**0 by Juerd (Abbot) on Jan 16, 2003 at 18:24 UTC
There has been a long discussion on this indeterminate form of exponentials previously - See More Fun with Zero!, in particular the replies from ariels and tilly. Thanks, that's quite interesting! Unfortunately, I don't understand most of the mathematical explanations (tilly++ for explaining the thing in English) and I can't find if 00 == 1 in Perl is coincidental or defined behaviour (ie. can I depend on 00 to be 1?). Juerd - http://juerd.nl/ - spamcollector_perlmonks@juerd.nl (do not use).	[reply]

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Re: Re: 0**0
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jan 16, 2003 at 18:24 UTC

There has been a long discussion on this indeterminate form of exponentials previously - See More Fun with Zero!, in particular the replies from ariels and tilly.

Thanks, that's quite interesting! Unfortunately, I don't understand most of the mathematical explanations (tilly++ for explaining the thing in English) and I can't find if 0**0 == 1 in Perl is coincidental or defined behaviour (ie. can I depend on 0**0 to be 1?).

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