Re: [MATHEDCC] radicals

Jerry Thornhill (jerry_thornhill@sw.cc.va.us)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:17:32 -0500

In defense of the TI-92 programmers, it should be noted that the 92 gives
the following warning when it does the "evaluation":

Warning: 0^0 replaced by 1

My feeling is that this was done as matter of convenience similar to what
we do in power series stuff when we also (for convenience) adopt the
convention that 0^0=1.

Jerry Thornhill
jerry_thornhill@sw.cc.va.us
Southwest Virginia Community College
Box SVCC
Richlands, VA 24641-1510
540-964-7328

At 08:41 AM 11/17/97 -0500, Lillie Crowley wrote:
>At 01:21 PM 11/13/97 -0500, Lawrence G. Gilligan wrote:
>>Just to a parenthetical comment: The TI-92 evaluates 0^0 as 1.
>>
>Yuk.
>
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