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Re: Decimals and other numbers

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Thanks Ben, with your encouragement I have filed
http://bugs.python.org/issue23201

-- Devin

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> writes:
>
>> What you don't say is which behavior you actually expected.  Since
>> 0**0 is undefined mathematically, I'd expect either an exception or a
>> NAN result.
>
> Do you think that the ‘int’ and ‘float’ types, which do produce a number
> result for ‘0 ** 0’, are buggy and should be fixed?
>
> I think the inconsistency is unnecessarily confusing. Perhaps the
> consistency is in standards outside Python, but I think there is cause
> here either for a change of behaviour or, if ther eis a good rationale
> for the incompatible behaviours, to document the rationale. In either
> case, a bug report is warranted IMO.
>
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Re: Decimals and other numbers Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2015-01-08 19:13 -0800

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