Although standard mathematica notation glosses over the difference, it's important to distinguish between the following two versions of the power operation, whi

Although standard mathematica notation glosses over the difference, it's important to distinguish between the following two versions of the power operation, which I'll call pow1 and pow2: pow1(x, y) = x^y where y is any integer pow2(x, y) = x^y where y is any real The value of 0^0 is 1 for (pow-a) and 0 for (pow-b).