Re: irrational and real exponents
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- Subject: [mg98149] Re: [mg98095] irrational and real exponents
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:20:19 -0500 (EST)
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- Reply-to: drmajorbob at bigfoot.com
One example is Exp[I Pi] -1 Bobby On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:42:12 -0500, <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 > -- DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com
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