From: Paul Graham (pgraham@cadence.com)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 08:10:24 PST
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I think that the rule about exponentiation was intended to cover the case of
a negative exponent. So:
x ** -1
will generally be a real number. The text:
The result of the power operator shall be real if either operand is a
real,integer,or signed.
should be changed to read:
The result of the power operator shall be real if either operand is
real, or if the second operand is negative.
Paul
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