Re: [pure-lang-users] math.pure

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 22:37 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
>> That's why I think pow should actually be restricted to the exact 
>> rational and integer cases, with ^ covering all inexact powers, and 
> 
>> Comments?
> 
> Can you believe I actually agree for once?

Uh oh, I have to mark that date on my calendar. :-P

> If you wanted to stick with just integers that would be fine with me since ^ deals with everything else.

It's useful to have the rational definition as well, because it deals 
with all integer exponents (not just nonnegative ones).

Ok, I committed this now (r561).

Albert

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