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0^0 = 1?
04-25-2017, 03:00 PM (This post was last modified: 04-25-2017 07:34 PM by Felix Gross.)
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RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1?
The 0^0 issue has puzzled me for quite a while. So like the extensive discussion. Here are my two cents.

Major commercial math programs do not agree on the handling. Mathematica returns an "Indeterminate", Matlab a "1". The latter was suggested as "useful" by Donald Knuth in his seminal book. IEEE seems to agree. The seminal NIST Handbook on Mathematical Functions does not.

So basically there seems no real answer, just useful conventions.

Enclosed are my notes showing that calculators take different approaches. I also listed some references from both sides of the aisle.

Would be fun to collect more on these results. Please let me know if you find errors in my notes.

Felix

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0^0 = 1? - emece67 - 04-21-2017, 07:43 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Werner - 04-21-2017, 09:55 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Thomas Okken - 04-21-2017, 01:54 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Egan Ford - 04-22-2017, 01:02 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Chris Dreher - 04-22-2017, 05:52 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Werner - 04-22-2017, 08:00 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Thomas Okken - 04-22-2017, 11:35 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - emece67 - 04-22-2017, 09:43 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - AlexFekken - 04-22-2017, 10:40 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Thomas Okken - 04-22-2017, 11:28 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - AlexFekken - 04-23-2017, 01:06 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - AlexFekken - 04-23-2017, 01:46 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Thomas Okken - 04-23-2017, 02:58 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Claudio L. - 04-23-2017, 07:33 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Thomas Okken - 04-23-2017, 07:45 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Claudio L. - 04-24-2017, 12:40 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Thomas Okken - 04-24-2017, 02:09 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - BobVA - 04-23-2017, 04:41 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Chris Dreher - 04-24-2017, 03:45 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Thomas Okken - 04-24-2017, 04:26 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Chris Dreher - 04-24-2017, 06:24 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - AlexFekken - 04-25-2017, 11:14 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Felix Gross - 04-25-2017 03:00 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - emece67 - 04-25-2017, 07:53 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - EdS2 - 04-26-2017, 06:03 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Chris Dreher - 04-27-2017, 04:55 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Paul Dale - 04-26-2017, 06:40 AM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - emece67 - 05-03-2017, 03:24 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - Gerald H - 04-27-2017, 05:48 AM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - d b - 04-27-2017, 03:35 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - rprosperi - 04-27-2017, 04:28 PM
RE: [wp34s] 0^0 = 1? - emece67 - 04-27-2017, 05:32 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - Felix Gross - 04-27-2017, 08:01 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - Dwight Sturrock - 04-27-2017, 11:20 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - Craig Bladow - 04-27-2017, 11:46 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - matthiaspaul - 04-27-2017, 11:51 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - ttw - 04-28-2017, 04:57 AM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - Chris Dreher - 04-28-2017, 04:50 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - Han - 04-28-2017, 05:50 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - matthiaspaul - 04-28-2017, 10:22 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - pier4r - 04-28-2017, 07:39 AM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - AndiGer - 04-28-2017, 07:18 PM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - ttw - 04-30-2017, 12:35 AM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - brickviking - 04-30-2017, 04:59 AM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - Anderson Costa - 05-09-2017, 01:04 AM
RE: 0^0 = 1? - Felix Gross - 05-09-2017, 07:30 PM



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