Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!gwyn@BRL.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: LPow correction Message-ID: <1809@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Sun, 29-Jun-86 14:43:55 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1809 Posted: Sun Jun 29 14:43:55 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jun-86 05:39:21 EDT Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 8 >>> limit of x^x as x->0+ is precisely 1 > This isn't a truth, it's a consequence of the definition of the system > as self consistant. Fortunately I don't subscribe to the school of thought that says all mathematics is simply rearrangement of symbols according to formal rules. As a physicist/engineer, the above limit has real meaning for me. So there.