Re: Is zero even or odd?
From: Michele Dondi (bik.mido_at_tiscalinet.it)
Date: 12/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:33:35 +0100
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:21:18 +0000 (UTC), Dave Seaman
<dseaman@no.such.host> wrote:
>using about half a dozen or so different C compilers on various platforms, and
>every single one of them printed 1.000000. Similarly for most other
>programming languages that I have tried. However, the mathematical definition
Since this was (cross)posted -for reasons that I can not imagine- also
to clpmisc, to bring it _slightly_ more on topic:
$ perl -le 'print 0**0'
1
BTW: my good 'ol faithful HP-28s tells me the same.
PS: the abondance of crankery this thread is revealing is tending to
make me feel homesick of my sci.math days... (has JSH pop out with an
FLT-based proof about 0^0 being... <whatever>?!?)
Michele
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