Mark Dickinson <dickinsm <at> gmail.com> writes: > > There's one respect in which complex is slightly more tightly > integrated in py3k than in trunk: raising a negative number to a > non-integer power (e.g., (-1)**0.5) gives a complex result in py3k.
>>> (-1)**.5 (6.123031769111886e-17+1j) Don't we have a precision problem here? 0.5 is supposed to be represented exactly, isn't it? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
