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From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Why raises this an error? :-(
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 07:25:50 GMT
Date: 2002-03-17T07:25:50+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C9445E7.7070301@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C942C08.FB78C653@acm.org

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Both the ARM and the AARM are silent on this.

Well, it's simple enough, isn't it? Negative numbers
raised to non-integer powers give complex, not real,
results. Just consider (-1) ** 0.5.




  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-17  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2002-03-17  7:25       ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2002-03-16 22:12 ` Kai Gläsner
2002-03-17  1:06   ` tmoran
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