0^0=0

[Ansus]

KCalc gives 0^0=0.

Pretty elaborate summary on the problem is available here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Zero_to_the_zero_power

In short: available tools either return 1 "for convenience" or some sort of error indicating indeterminate value.

[slamdunk (antongiulio05)]

gcalctool in jaunty returns 1 :)

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This bug needs to be forwarded to the KDE bug tracker at https://bugs.kde.org if it has not been done so already. For the person who forwards this, please also paste the link to the KDE bug here so that it can be tracked in this bug report.

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

This appears to be solved in KDE 4.2.85 (aka beta1), KCalc correctly states 0^0=nan (not a number aka undefined)

For those falling into the trap: Google states 0^0=1..., so does gcaltool, but there is no real consensus about the matter, as even Math faculties around the globe give contradictory results...

Conclusion: there is *no* consensus amongst the scholars. and this discussion is more than 150 years old, so leaving it undefined is certainly more secure than a definition on which there is no agreement.

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

Fix released upstream and in KDE 4.2.85

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Closing unused upstream bugwatch.