Re: irrational and real exponents
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- Subject: [mg98116] Re: irrational and real exponents
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:14:05 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Roger, No, I would rather think at cases like e.g.: E^(Pi I), 0.1^0, 0.1^Infinity Daniel congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com wrote: > 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 >