Re: [HACKERS] bug in numeric_power() function

Applied.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > > > I have developed the attached patch which fixes 0 ^ 123.3.
> > > >
> > > > Did you actually read the wikipedia entry you cited?
> >
> > But that's about 0^0, not about 0^123.3.  See this other subsection:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Powers_of_zero
> >
> > 0^123.3 is 0, not 1.
>
> Ah, got it, and I updated the patch to remove the commment about
> "discrete".
>
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