On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Minimiscience wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>>
>>> What's the 0th root of a number, then?
>>> It would be a number $y for which $y ** 0 == $x, which can only be
>>> fulfilled fo
Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>>
>>
>> What's the 0th root of a number, then?
>> It would be a number $y for which $y ** 0 == $x, which can only be
>> fulfilled for $x == 1. So in the general cases the answer to the
>> question root($x, 0) is nonsense
On Oct 1, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Moritz Lenz
wrote:
What's the 0th root of a number, then?
It would be a number $y for which $y ** 0 == $x, which can only be
fulfilled for $x == 1. So in the general cases the answer to the
question root($x, 0)
On Oct 1, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
-Returns a list of all C<$n>th (complex) roots of C<$x>
+Returns a list of all C<$n>th (complex) roots of C<$x>. Returns
C if
+C<< $n <= 0 >>, itself if C<$n == 0>, and is free to return a
single C
Shouldn't this be "C<< $n < 0 >>"?
What's t
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>
>
> What's the 0th root of a number, then?
> It would be a number $y for which $y ** 0 == $x, which can only be
> fulfilled for $x == 1. So in the general cases the answer to the
> question root($x, 0) is nonsense, which is best mapped to NaN.
Jon Lang wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:58 PM, wrote:
>>
>> Author: moritz
>> Date: 2009-10-01 08:58:00 +0200 (Thu, 01 Oct 2009)
>> New Revision: 28523
>>
>> Modified:
>> docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod
>> Log:
>> [S32::Num] More thoughts on Inf/NaN Complex, and on comparing
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:58 PM, wrote:
>
> Author: moritz
> Date: 2009-10-01 08:58:00 +0200 (Thu, 01 Oct 2009)
> New Revision: 28523
>
> Modified:
> docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod
> Log:
> [S32::Num] More thoughts on Inf/NaN Complex, and on comparing Complex and
> Real number
Author: moritz
Date: 2009-10-01 08:58:00 +0200 (Thu, 01 Oct 2009)
New Revision: 28523
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod
Log:
[S32::Num] More thoughts on Inf/NaN Complex, and on comparing Complex and Real
numbers
Also bring the goodness of the newly defined Numeric and
