Thanks John. with regards to your side note, I will refrain from using that word. In my defense, my drink-fuddled brain was very frustrated. ;)
On Friday, 6 June 2014 20:10:14 UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: > > You should use 10^-2.0. The way you’re trying to do things would require > that the power function produce different types of outputs for different > input values, which would make optimization/compilation difficult. > > As a side note, I think you’ll find it’s more effective not to use the > word “stupid”. > > — John > > On Jun 6, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Zahirul ALAM <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > 10^2 returns 100; > > but 10^-2 or 10^(-2) returns ERROR: DomainError in power_by_squaring > at intfuncs.jl:60 in ^ at intfuncs.jl:84 > > > > do I have to use 1/10^2 instead? > > > > This seems rather stupid. is it a Bug? I am using the nightly build > version downloaded a couple of days ago. I am new to Julia and trying to > convert my a large Mathematica code in Julia. > >
