>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <[email protected]> writes:
Raymond> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Matt Kaufmann
<[email protected]>
Raymond> wrote:
>> Hi --
>>
>> I'm seeing that evaluation of (expt 0 10001) results in an error, as
>> does (expt 0 k) for any k above 10000 as far as I can tell. Details
>> are in the log below. Interestingly, a base of 1 doesn't cause this
>> problem; e.g., (expt 1 10000000000000000000000) evaluates to 1; so I
>> wonder if the error with 0 could be avoided.
>>
Raymond> Yeah we should probably shortcut to return 0 or signal
divide-by-zero (or
Raymond> something) for negative exponents. At least for integer exponents
and an
Raymond> exact 0.
Done. Available in the next snapshot coming real soon now.
--
Ray
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