From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Why raises this an error? :-(
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 05:39:34 GMT
Date: 2002-03-17T05:39:34+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C942C08.FB78C653@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C93C0C9.14A5FC7D@t-online.de
Kai Gl�sner wrote:
>
> But why is the value of the left operand not allowed to be negative
> according to the ARM?
Both the ARM and the AARM are silent on this. A possible reason is that
X ** Y may be implemented as
exp (log (X) * Y)
and you cannot take the log of a negative value. This is simply a guess
on my part, though.
--
Jeff Carter
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2002-03-16 19:48 Why raises this an error? :-( Kai Gläsner
2002-03-16 20:32 ` Damien Carbonne
2002-03-17 16:31 ` Steve Doiel
2002-03-16 20:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-16 22:01 ` Kai Gläsner
2002-03-17 5:39 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2002-03-17 7:25 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-16 22:12 ` Kai Gläsner
2002-03-17 1:06 ` tmoran
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