Re: ANNOUNCE: NIST Considers Schneier Public Key Algorithm

From: Stephen Jones (s0zero9four2four7_at_sms.ed.ac.uk)
Date: 04/02/04


Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 22:03:54 GMT

On 01 Apr 2004 21:42:44 GMT
djohn37050@aol.com (DJohn37050) wrote:

> 0 ^ 0 is defined to be 1 so that x ^ 0 is always defined and is
> continuous. Don Johnson

Not quite. It can be defined that way if your needs require it. The
function f(x) -> x^0 is said to have a removable singularity at 0,
meaning that the function

g(x) f(x) if x != 0
       lim x->0 f(x) if x = 0

is continous.

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