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Inconsistency in handling division by zero
Using double precision:
>> 1/0
ans =
Inf
And :
>> 0^(-1)
ans =
Inf
The results should be consistent using either method as shown above. However, using quad precision, these computations do not give consistent results:
>> 1/mp(0)
ans =
Inf
>> mp(0)^(-1)
ans =
Inf - NaNi
I'm not sure what's under the hood, but it seems to me that either computation should give the same answer.
Kundesupport af UserEcho
In power function we handle inputs like complex numbers by default. Semantic for various singular cases in complex arithmetic is not defined uniformly and implementation dependent (e.g. see here: http://www.advanpix.com/2015/10/19/devnotes-1-multiplicative-operations-with-complex-infinity/)
That is the reason for such misbehavior. We will fix this today.
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