[GiNaC-devel] New in GiNaC: step function

Richard B. Kreckel kreckel at ginac.de
Fri Mar 10 22:24:36 CET 2006


Hi, Vladimir

Vladimir Kisil wrote:

>RC> But that appears to be missing the possibiliby of fractional powers.
>
>I am not sure what fractional powers of a negative values should be...
>  
>

For example csgn(x)^(1/2) where it later turns out that x==-1.  It seems 
to me that the rewriting rule you suggested would get that wrong.

Cheers
  -richy.

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