No worries. After more than two years on it, I’m still figuring out what’s the right tone for the mailing list.
— John On Jun 6, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Zahirul ALAM <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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. >
