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PoweR with extended real exponents

Open jmmarulang opened this issue 1 month ago • 4 comments

Motivation for this change
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  • [ ] added corresponding entries in CHANGELOG_UNRELEASED.md
  • [ ] added corresponding documentation in the headers

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jmmarulang avatar Nov 10 '25 11:11 jmmarulang

Maybe you shouldn't remove ln_eq0 and change the proof of lne_eq0.

affeldt-aist avatar Nov 10 '25 13:11 affeldt-aist

I will give it a try.

jmmarulang avatar Nov 10 '25 14:11 jmmarulang

Unrelated to that. Im starting to think that lne returning -oo instead of 0 for negative numbers is more cumbersome than beneficial. Specially when trying to work with poweR you are forced to deal with a lot more cases, since it is no longer true that (x < 0) -> x ^ y = 1`.

jmmarulang avatar Nov 10 '25 15:11 jmmarulang

@affeldt-aist, after discussing this development with @jmmarulang, we think that this new definition of the power function is more cumbersome to work with than the one proposed in #1613, we should discuss whether it's a good idea to polish the current version or find another approach.

hoheinzollern avatar Nov 19 '25 13:11 hoheinzollern