[PD] Negative input numbers for [pow] return 0

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On 04/22/2013 04:07 PM, Joe White wrote:
> Would it be possible
> to add this to [pow] as well? Something like for negative base values,
> non-integer exponent values would return NaN?

bien sur, it would be easy to add this.
the thing is, do we really want that?
having NaN's somewhere in your computation will have all the results 
become NaN, including any signals.
NaN-signals don't sound good.

>
> Additionally for [pow] to output '0' seems wrong, because that is
> definitely not the answer. I've never seen NaN output elsewhere so I'm
> assuming [expr] outputs a symbol and not some Pd defined NaN type (maybe?).
>
no. the output is a number of the value NaN (which gets displayed as 
NaN, but this doesn't mean it a symbol ,just like "1e-8" is not a symbol 
either...usually)

fmgar
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