Mathematics in Python are not correct

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Sun May 11 18:32:05 EDT 2008


wxPythoner at gmail.com wrote:
>
>I am stunned that this simple misunderstanding of mine ended in a
>mathematical clash of a sort. :)  You guys really blew me away wih
>your mathematical knowledge. And also the 0**0 is a thing I've never
>thought about trying, until now that is. If the mathematical rule is
>that EVERYTHING raised to the power of 0 is 1, then we should accept
>that, even in the case of 0**0. This is just the way it is.

Sure, but it's ALSO the mathematical rule that 0 raised to any power is 0.
Thus, there are multiple solutions to this problem, meaning that there is
NO solution to the problem.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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