Re: Possible error in bc

[Harald Anlauf]

address@hidden (Dean Allen Provins) writes:

> Recently, when calculating some larger numbers, I had occasion (in my
> formulae) to compute 0^0 (i.e. zero tothe zero power).  This produced
> the value 1 (one).

This is in accordance with the bc documentation:

  "It should be noted that expr^0 will always return the value of 1."

> It was my understanding (and I checked my CRC math tables book, and
> also tried gcc in a simple test) that 0^0 should be 0 (zero).

I don't know how you fouled gcc into this, but this is clearly wrong.

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Ciao,
-ha