[Python-Dev] (-1)**(1/2)==1? (original) (raw)

Facundo Batista facundobatista at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 16:50:35 CET 2006

2006/2/20, Jonathan Barbero <jonathan.barbero at gmail.com>:

Hello! My name is Jonathan, i´m new with Python.

Hello Jonathan. This list is only for developing Python itself, not for developing in Python.

You should address this kind of question in comp.lang.python (available as a newsgroup and a mailing list), see here for instructions:

I try this in the command line:

>>> (-1)**(1/2) 1 This is wrong, i think it must throw an exception. What do you think?

It's OK, because (1/2) is zero, not 0.5.

1/2 0

Regards,

. Facundo