On 12/9/2009 11:50 AM, Bill Baxter wrote:
Found this link about 0^^0:
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0.to.0.power.html
I think this explains pretty well why Wolfram is justified in saying
0^^0 is indeterminate, but a PL like D is perfectly justified in
saying it's 1.
In particular the article asserts: "Consensus has recently been built
around setting the value of 0^0 = 1"
--bb
Wikipedia also has a section discussing this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Zero_to_the_zero_power
Of particular interest may be the list of particular languages, programs
and calculators that treat it each way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Treatment_in_programming_languages.2C_symbolic_algebra_systems.2C_and_calculators
Janzert
