Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: pi

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Henning Thielemann wrote:

(**) should not exist, because there is no sensible definition for many operands for real numbers, and it becomes even worse for complex numbers. The more general the exponent, the more restricted is the basis and vice versa in order to get sound definitions.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-April/015329.html

I've put it on the Wiki: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Power_function