Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

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)

We should just arbitrarily pick a winner for all of thses

that's how you get php

and this isn't like some flippant "boo php" comment -- I'm pretty sure that's a core design philosophy of its apis.

Realistically though, in computers at least the alternative to NaN is more likely UB, so I'm happy we have it

alt: What If I Told You That IEEE754 Was A Monad

So all I need to do to understand floating point is wrap my cat in a burrito?

genuinely uncertain which is worse to explain the other with