On Oct 4, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, JOE Conner wrote:
Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote:
+1^10
+1^10=1. Sorry. Couldn't resist.
For what it is worth, +1^0 also equals 1. Resistless in Poulsbo.
My memory may be slipping but I remember it as anything to the zero
power equal zero.
No.
x^1 is x.
x^-1 is 1/x, except for x=0, which is illegal.
x^(1 + -1) is x * 1/x, which is 1, except for x=0, which is illegal.
0^0 is illegal. Otherwise, x^0 is 1.
--
John W Kennedy
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and
Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making
mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes
from being corrected."
-- G. K. Chesterton
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