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Re: Decimals and other numbers

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Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> writes:

> decimal.InvalidOperation: 0 ** 0
>
> I'd file a bug report but I'm anticipating some rational (heh)
> explanation. Any ideas?

First note that it's explicitly documented as an invalid operation
<URL:file:///usr/share/doc/python3-doc/html/library/decimal.html#decimal.InvalidOperation>.
So someone has at least thought about it and deliberately decided it
should be so.

Why that should be, I don't know; I think the correct behaviour is for
‘0 ** 0 == 1’. But perhaps someone else has a better explanation for why
Decimal should behave differently from ‘int’ and ‘float’ here.

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Re: Decimals and other numbers Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-09 13:43 +1100

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