Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >Does anyone have an explanation why Decimal 0**0 behaves so differently from >float 0**0? >... >I am familiar with the arguments for treating 0**0 as 0, or undefined, but >thought that except for specialist use-cases, it was standard practice for >programming languages to have 0**0 return 1. According to Wikipedia, the >IEEE 754 standard is for "pow" to return 1, although languages can define a >separate "powr" function to return a NAN. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Zero_to_the_power_of_zero > >I suspect this is a bug in Decimal's interpretation of the standard. Can >anyone comment?
I don't think Decimal ever promised to adhere to IEEE 754, did it? -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
