http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/faq/#why-does-julia-give-a-domainerror-for-certain-seemingly-sensible-operations
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 03:24:00 AM Florian Oswald wrote: > # define a variable gamma: > > gamma = 1.4 > mgamma = 1.0-gamma > > julia> mgamma > -0.3999999999999999 > > # this works: > > julia> -0.399999999999^2.5 > -0.10119288512475567 > > # this doesn't: > > julia> mgamma^2.5 > ERROR: DomainError > in ^ at math.jl:252
