From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Malte Spiess Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: lisp question Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:24:16 +0200 Organization: Arcor Message-ID: <87tzuwfzi7.fsf@skikr.news.arcor.de> References: <87lkg9eyuw.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> <4637274F.2080202@hfigge.myfqdn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178040179 5201 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2007 17:22:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:22:59 +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 19:22:58 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 1Hiw41-0005li-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 19:22:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiwAL-0007Li-8V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 13:29:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dbYdMmecJ1GvCbRIyqtS+hcCsDo= Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 May 2007 15:23:49 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 282d4357.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=AR<\BH3YBhIhTAi8P5ELjQd8_=H Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147833 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 May 2007 13:26:13 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:43438 Archived-At: Hartmut Figge writes: > Brendan Halpin schribselte >>A Soare writes: > >>> Why e^0 evaluates to 1? >> >>x^0 is defined as 1 for all real values of x. > > Mhm, not if x is zero. In this case the result is not defined. IIRC. :) That is really a matter of how you define it. Normally it's easier to say that 0^0=1, it makes calculations easier. > Hartmut Greetings Malte