Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 36529] - [lang] Fraction 0 to the zeroth power should throw an ArithmeticException

[Phil Steitz <ph...@gmail.com>]

I agree with Brent, and we did discuss this a couple of years back:
http://www.mail-archive.com/commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg23611.html

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> ------- Additional Comments From brent@worden.org 2005-09-07 04:39 -------
> The OP is correct in stating that 0^0 is an indeterminate form.
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> However, in lang's defense, java.lang.Math.pow(0, 0) does return 1.0 based 
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> the special case found in the javadoc comments: If the second argument is
> positive or negative zero, then the result is 1.0.
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