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Re: 0^0=1 (?)

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  • Subject: [mg50378] Re: [mg50373] 0^0=1 (?)
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:49:16 -0400 (EDT)
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Unprotect[Power];
0^0=1;
Protect[Power];


0^0

1

Though I am not convinced this is always such a good thing. You could 
instead just do your computations "locally"  inside Block as
follows:

Block[{Power},0^0=1;computation]


For example:


Block[{Power},0^0=1;Sin[Pi]^(3!-6)]

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Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/



On 31 Aug 2004, at 19:28, underscore wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'd like to define 0^0=1 in Mathematica such that it doesn't return
> Indeterminate when this occurs.
>
> Thanks
>
>


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