it is absolutely indeterminate in math as wellhttps://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0%5E0
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Replying to @Gankra_
I've always seen it taught as equal to 1 (not disputing that "indeterminite" is a valid answer, or that any is debatable)
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Replying to @sgrif
dunno what to say dude, you've always seen it taught incorrectly. If you define 0^0 then math breaks, more or less.
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Replying to @sgrif
it makes sense to eval 0^0 if you know "where" the 0's are from (limit) or how you want to use the results (does the right thing)
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Replying to @Gankra_
We should just arbitrarily pick a winner for all of thses
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and this isn't like some flippant "boo php" comment -- I'm pretty sure that's a core design philosophy of its apis.
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Replying to @Gankra_
Realistically though, in computers at least the alternative to NaN is more likely UB, so I'm happy we have it
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So all I need to do to understand floating point is wrap my cat in a burrito?
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Replying to @sgrif
genuinely uncertain which is worse to explain the other with
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Replying to @Gankra_
No but seriously are you going to comment that `Carrier`/`ResultCarrier` should be called `Monad`? Or should I?
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