From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: lisp question Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 21:10:44 +0200 Organization: http://purl.org/harder/ Message-ID: <87tzuwe4wb.fsf@Jesper-Harders-Computer.local> References: <31145455.103801178044797761.JavaMail.www@wwinf4203> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178046765 11926 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2007 19:12:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:12:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 01 21:12:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hixm7-0001rL-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 21:12:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HixsR-0000G8-LA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HixrD-0007Hl-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HixrC-0007Dx-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:17:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HixrC-0007Dt-2e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hixkr-0000FM-5j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 15:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hixkh-0006Mt-4u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 21:11:07 +0200 Original-Received: from 0x5552821a.adsl.cybercity.dk ([85.82.130.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 May 2007 21:11:07 +0200 Original-Received: from jesper.harder by 0x5552821a.adsl.cybercity.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 May 2007 21:11:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0x5552821a.adsl.cybercity.dk X-Face: ^RrvqCr7c,P$zTR:QED"@h9+BTm-"fjZJJ-3=OU7.)i/K]<.J88}s>'Z_$r; List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43446 Archived-At: A Soare writes: > What determined the mathematicians to give the definition of x^0 = 1, > not defined for x=0 ? Because 0/0 is undefined: x^1 x x^0 = ---- = --- x^1 x x=0 -> 0/0.