Ticket #79 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 21 months ago

Last modified 16 months ago

rational-expt

Reported by: cowan Owned by: alexshinn
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: WG1 - Numerics Keywords:
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Description (last modified by alexshinn) (diff)

Often a rational-only exponentiation function is useful; that is, a rational number raised to an integer power. Should we add this procedure to the core so that exponentiation is available even if inexact rationals are not provided or not imported?

Change History

comment:1 Changed 18 months ago by alexshinn

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:2 Changed 18 months ago by alexshinn

I don't understand the motivation - why we can't use expt?

comment:3 Changed 18 months ago by alexshinn

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:4 Changed 16 months ago by cowan

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix

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