Tim Peters added the comment: This is easy: Cowlishaw is wrong on this one, but nothing can be done about it ;-)
Confusion arises because most people think of 0**0 as a value (where it certainly must be 1) while others seem to view it as some kind of shorthand for expressing a limit (as the base and/or exponent _approach_ 0, in which case there is no correct answer - it's an "indeterminate form"). It's in the "spirit of 754" to take inputs at face value, viewing them as infinitely precise. So viewing 0**0 as anything other than 1 in this context is perverse. Centuries of history distilled to a few paragraphs here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Zero_to_the_power_of_zero ---------- nosy: +tim.peters _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23201> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
