About 0^^0

[Janzert]

On 12/9/2009 11:50 AM, Bill Baxter wrote:
> Found this link about 0^^0:
> http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0.to.0.power.html
>
> I think this explains pretty well why Wolfram is justified in saying
> 0^^0 is indeterminate, but a PL like D is perfectly justified in
> saying it's 1.
>
> In particular the article asserts: "Consensus has recently been built
> around setting the value of 0^0 = 1"
>
> --bb

Wikipedia also has a section discussing this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Zero_to_the_zero_power

Of particular interest may be the list of particular languages, programs 
and calculators that treat it each way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Treatment_in_programming_languages.2C_symbolic_algebra_systems.2C_and_calculators

Janzert