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irrational and real exponents

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• Subject: [mg98095] irrational and real exponents
• From: congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com
• Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:42:12 -0500 (EST)

Hello MathGroup:

Originally I was confused also about imaginary exponents also but help
cleared that up.

Help for Power also has this sentence: "For certain special arguments,
Power automatically evaluates to exact values."

Does this imply that for irrational and real exponents, they are
"truncated" to rationals before they are evaluated?

Thanks in advance for any info on this.

Roger Williams
Franklin Laboratory

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