y ^ 0 = y?

[Bruce]

I'm writing a web application in c#, and noticed that any number
raised to the 0th power results in the number being returned... Am I
right in that y ^ 0 = 1????

Is this a bug?

Bruce

[100]

Hi Bruce,

In c# operation ^ is bitwise XOR not power operation
So yes *any nuber* XORed with 0 is the number itself.
C# as many other languages doesn't have operation for powers of number.

HTH
B\rgds
100
"Bruce" <bt******@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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I'm writing a web application in c#, and noticed that any number
raised to the 0th power results in the number being returned... Am I
right in that y ^ 0 = 1????

Is this a bug?

Bruce

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Bruce,
To raise a number to a power, you need to use System.Math.Pow. Watch the
order of the parameters, its easy to get them backwards ;-)

As 100 pointed out ^ is the Xor operator in C#.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Bruce" <bt******@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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I'm writing a web application in c#, and noticed that any number
raised to the 0th power results in the number being returned... Am I
right in that y ^ 0 = 1????

Is this a bug?

Bruce

[Bruce Tenison]

Doh! That's what I get for switching languages! Thanks for the help!!

Bruce

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[ozbear]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:46:28 -0800, Bruce Tenison
<bt******@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Doh! That's what I get for switching languages! Thanks for the help!!

Uhhh....errrr...which language we you coming from?
The ^ operator does the same thing (XOR) in C.
In Delphi it is a pointer declarator/dereferencer.

Just curious.

Oz

[Dmitry Baibakov]

ozbear wrote:

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:46:28 -0800, Bruce Tenison
<bt******@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Doh! That's what I get for switching languages! Thanks for the help!!

Uhhh....errrr...which language we you coming from?
The ^ operator does the same thing (XOR) in C.
In Delphi it is a pointer declarator/dereferencer.

Just curious.

Oz

it's VB, don't you remember there is such language? :)))

[Bruce Tenison]

Yep. That would be it (vb), or actually a lot of vbscript lately, then
back to c#.

Bruce

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