Re: TI-83 BUG?????
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Re: TI-83 BUG?????
a^0=1 for a not equal to zero.
to me (this is a debatable topic, by the way) 0^0=infinity.
Bhuvanesh Bhatt.
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, P. Kolbus wrote:
> No, according to all my textbooks (that mention it), 0^0=1.
>
> At 09:24 9/10/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >yes, it's definitely wrong;
> >0 raised to 0 is infinity.
> >
> >Bhuvanesh Bhatt.
> >
> >On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Mattias Lindqvist wrote:
> >
> >> On 3 Sep 96 at 9:29, Karen L. Pagel wrote:
> >>
> >> > There is a lot of concern expressed regarding the bug on the TI83. I use
> >> > examples like these to teach my students that they must think about answers
> >> > and whether they are reasonable or not.
> >> >
> >> > My first TI35 told me that 0 raised to the 0 was 1.
> >>
> >> So does my HP-48GX. Is that really wrong?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Mattias Lindqvist
> >> CS student at LTH, Sweden
> >> E-mail: d96mli@efd.lth.se
> >>
> >
> >
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