Re: 85 Question, raising a negative number to a fractional

Re: 85 Question, raising a negative number to a fractional exponent

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Subject: Re: 85 Question, raising a negative number to a fractional exponent
From: DaMaStErMiNd <damastermind@MINDLESS.COM>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:34:10 -0400
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That garbage is just the component form of the imaginary number.  What's wrong
with
that?

Matt Weintraub wrote:

> Hey,
>     I've got a TI-85. When I raise a negative number to a fractional
> exponent, it gives the imaginary number garbage. I know that you can't take
> a square root of a negative number, and that raising it to a fraction if it
> is not 2 or an even number isn't allowed, but the 83s handle it correctly by
> first processing the exponent and then the root. Is it just a bug?
>
> Matt Weintraub
> neda@erols.com
> http://www.erols.com/neda
> "Your mouse cursor has moved.
> NT must be restarted for this change
> to take effect."

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