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- From: a-cnadc@microsoft.com (Dann Corbit)
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- Subject: Re: pow(-1,1.1) = DOMAIN error
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 18:47:56 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- Message-ID: <4gsv8s$f9p@news.microsoft.com>
- References: <Christian.Straka.15.0010E3C9@uni-konstanz.de> <312D1DA8.3250@nz.eds.com>
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- In article <312D1DA8.3250@nz.eds.com>, ross.smith@nz.eds.com says...
- >Mathematically speaking, it should really be a range error rather than a
- >domain error, but it's definitely an error.
- >
- For the exponentiation operator in general, it would be a range error.
- For the real valued exponentiation operator it is a domain error.
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