Mercurial > emacs
changeset 62305:220044642e27
(Default Simplifications): Mention 0^0=1.
| author | Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sat, 14 May 2005 00:53:40 +0000 |
| parents | 759e02011c0d |
| children | 7ae51dd8a0f6 |
| files | man/calc.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/calc.texi Fri May 13 23:28:35 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/calc.texi Sat May 14 00:53:40 2005 +0000 @@ -22660,11 +22660,10 @@ The formula @expr{x^0} is simplified to @expr{1}, or to @samp{idn(1)} in Matrix mode. The formula @expr{0^x} is simplified to @expr{0} -unless @expr{x} is a negative number or complex number, in which -case the result is an infinity or an unsimplified formula according -to the current infinite mode. Note that @expr{0^0} is an -indeterminate form, as evidenced by the fact that the simplifications -for @expr{x^0} and @expr{0^x} conflict when @expr{x=0}. +unless @expr{x} is a negative number, complex number or zero. +If @expr{x} is negative, complex or @expr{0.0}, @expr{0^x} is an +infinity or an unsimplified formula according to the current infinite +mode. The expression @expr{0^0} is simplified to @expr{1}. Powers of products or quotients @expr{(a b)^c}, @expr{(a/b)^c} are distributed to @expr{a^c b^c}, @expr{a^c / b^c} only if @expr{c}