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- Subject: Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent
- From: Thomas Jericke <tjericke@...>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:23:15 +0200
On 04/14/2014 01:04 PM, Philipp Janda wrote:
Or maybe `math.pow` and `math.ipow`. This way you can be explicit if
you need a certain overflow behavior.
Philipp
If `math.pow` and `math.ipow` was used to be explicit about overflow and
underflow behaviour,
than maybe the x ^ y operator should try to implicitly produce the most
useful output.
I write in conditional form, because I am not sure about the issue either.
--
Thomas
- References:
- integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Hartmut Henkel
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Tim Hill
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Coda Highland
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Tim Hill
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Tim Hill
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Dirk Laurie
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Justin Cormack
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Thomas Jericke
- Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent, Philipp Janda