Hello. I’ve spent some time reading about the reasons behind why Julia deals with negative exponents the way it does and I’m not interested in resurrecting that debate. I’m working on a script and I’ve run into a problem that boils down to the following: -1.5 ^ -1.5 # Works! b = -1.5 b ^ b # Doesn…

Negative Base and Negative Exponent

mbaz May 13, 2017, 4:41pm 9

In Matlab:

>> -2^2

ans =

    -4

I would be very surprised if -2^2=4.

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