note 17298 added to function.pow

From: Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 20:02:12 +0000
Subject: note 17298 added to function.pow
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I would just like to comment on the first note for this function. Technically speaking, there is no answer to a negative number taken to a fractional power. I don't know exactly what you were using the pow function for, but the solution you came up with is mathmatically incorrect. You could return the answer of the absolute value taken to the same fractional root and append an 'i' to the end of it (root of -1 is i for imaginary). -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pow.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+17298 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+17298 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+17298

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