Hi Julia community, I am a new Julia user. Like what I see till now but with sometimes its head twisting. For example today I saw something and I wanted to know the difference between (-(0.5/1))^1.5 vs -(0.5/1)^1.5 First one gives me error: ERROR: DomainError with -0.5: Exponentiation yie…

You are raising a negative number to the power 3/2, and that’s just not something you can do without complex numbers. It is the same as trying to take the square root of a negative number.

And the second one was calculating -(0.5^1.5)

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vettukal May 27, 2020, 11:41pm 4

Thanks everyone for answering. Searching around the forum I also found this thread which is useful.

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