Once, twice, thrice... ?

[Blazkowicz]

what about 0^0? what limes does that probable NaN have?

 

[Bigus Dickus]

Why is it ever singularised? It's maths, not math. You do some maths, you don't do a math.

I do math, just like I do English and History and Biology and Physiology and Anatomy. Not Englishes, Histories, Biologies, Physiologies, Chemistries, Anatomies, etc.

OTOH, I might do some Economics or Social Studies or Statistics or Physics, so there seem to be precedents both ways.

 

[Blazkowicz]

Actually I might do physique, économie, électronique and almost anything else (including informatique). but we seem to have an expection : "les mathématiques" (and probabilités, statistiques but it's still maths).

 

[_xxx_]

what about 0^0? what limes does that probable NaN have?

0^0 is simply 1, a legit result with no need for limits. Anything ^0 is 1.

 

[Basic]

If you look at lim(x->0+ ; 0^x), it's not so clear cut anymore.

But 0^0 is often defined to 1 because it's often the most usefull value at that point.

 

[_xxx_]

That would not be 0^x but x^0, thus it is clear

 

[AcceleratorX]

Once, twice, thrice, frice, pentice (or pice), hexice, sevice, octice, nunice

 

[mito]

in Latin there are no such words I believe.....

in German it would be "ein mal", "zwei mal"....

 

[nthd]

once, adv. 1, as numeral, semel; once and for all, semel.

 

[Dresden]

Ahahah look what I started!