From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,587583eece659d7a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-16 23:25:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc03.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C9445E7.7070301@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why raises this an error? :-( References: <3C93A19C.67D6E442@t-online.de> <3C93ACE5.36B3BCE2@acm.org> <3C93C0C9.14A5FC7D@t-online.de> <3C942C08.FB78C653@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 07:25:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.248.253 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc03.gnilink.net 1016349950 162.83.248.253 (Sun, 17 Mar 2002 02:25:50 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 02:25:50 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21358 Date: 2002-03-17T07:25:50+00:00 List-Id: 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.