in reply to zero to the power zero

I don't think it's undefined, I think it's indeterminate form. By definition, anything to the 0 power is 1. In calculus it becomes meaningless, but in Perl it doesn't cause an error.

-Paul

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Re^2: zero to the power zero
by Moron (Curate) on Feb 19, 2007 at 14:14 UTC
    The wiki you refer to seems to be bit clumsy there. Rather than be meaningless in calculus, I would argue that calculus, a branch of mathematical analysis, is the only discipline known to be capable of giving such values a meaning.

    -M

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