strange operation .^ result came out

I was trying to power operation for constant

 t=linspace(0,10,100);
 y=(-1)^(t);

I expected the results as 1 1 1 1 -1 -1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 1 1 -1 something like the combination of 1 and -1

but the result is not what i have expected

below is the following results

  Columns 1 through 7

   0.0000 + 0.0000i   0.0958 + 0.0315i   0.1616 + 0.1190i   0.1731 + 0.2431i   0.1167 + 0.3754i  -0.0077 + 0.4838i  -0.1863 + 0.5383i

  Columns 8 through 14

  -0.3934 + 0.5169i  -0.5955 + 0.4100i  -0.7570 + 0.2223i  -0.8465 - 0.0269i  -0.8421 - 0.3065i  -0.7360 - 0.5788i  -0.5356 - 0.8051i

  Columns 15 through 21

  -0.2632 - 0.9520i   0.0475 - 0.9973i   0.3565 - 0.9332i   0.6238 - 0.7678i   0.8156 - 0.5242i   0.9098 - 0.2361i   0.8989 + 0.0571i

  Columns 22 through 28

   0.7913 + 0.3168i   0.6092 + 0.5112i   0.3849 + 0.6203i   0.1550 + 0.6389i  -0.0458 + 0.5762i  -0.1904 + 0.4546i  -0.2636 + 0.3042i

  Columns 29 through 35

  -0.2644 + 0.1583i  -0.2055 + 0.0464i  -0.1106 - 0.0106i  -0.0094 - 0.0041i   0.0675 + 0.0604i   0.0953 + 0.1650i   0.0591 + 0.2825i

  Columns 36 through 42

  -0.0425 + 0.3813i  -0.1973 + 0.4319i  -0.3807 + 0.4122i  -0.5608 + 0.3120i  -0.7029 + 0.1355i  -0.7763 - 0.0991i  -0.7597 - 0.3616i

  Columns 43 through 49

  -0.6453 - 0.6153i  -0.4405 - 0.8221i  -0.1675 - 0.9497i   0.1403 - 0.9761i   0.4431 - 0.8940i   0.7010 - 0.7123i   0.8806 - 0.4540i

  Columns 50 through 56

   0.9598 - 0.1536i   0.9315 + 0.1491i   0.8045 + 0.4148i   0.6016 + 0.6112i   0.3559 + 0.7181i   0.1049 + 0.7295i  -0.1155 + 0.6550i

  Columns 57 through 63

  -0.2769 + 0.5169i  -0.3631 + 0.3462i  -0.3720 + 0.1771i  -0.3154 + 0.0403i  -0.2168 - 0.0418i  -0.1060 - 0.0590i  -0.0139 - 0.0151i

  Columns 64 through 70

   0.0334 + 0.0731i   0.0200 + 0.1794i  -0.0571 + 0.2728i  -0.1871 + 0.3240i  -0.3471 + 0.3106i  -0.5063 + 0.2216i  -0.6310 + 0.0603i

  Columns 71 through 77

  -0.6912 - 0.1561i  -0.6659 - 0.3987i  -0.5473 - 0.6316i  -0.3426 - 0.8180i  -0.0736 - 0.9260i   0.2267 - 0.9344i   0.5190 - 0.8364i

  Columns 78 through 84

   0.7638 - 0.6409i   0.9281 - 0.3715i   0.9901 - 0.0629i   0.9432 + 0.2447i   0.7964 + 0.5118i   0.5735 + 0.7059i   0.3079 + 0.8061i

  Columns 85 through 91

   0.0384 + 0.8066i  -0.1982 + 0.7170i  -0.3726 + 0.5601i  -0.4675 + 0.3676i  -0.4798 + 0.1746i  -0.4211 + 0.0134i  -0.3144 - 0.0923i

  Columns 92 through 98

  -0.1901 - 0.1309i  -0.0796 - 0.1046i  -0.0101 - 0.0291i   0.0011 + 0.0701i  -0.0506 + 0.1627i  -0.1559 + 0.2190i  -0.2936 + 0.2162i

  Columns 99 through 100

  -0.4338 + 0.1425i  -0.5440 + 0.0000i

and blow is its figure

i don`t know why this operation bring my numbers to complex plane

why this happens?

I just want to do power operation for each value in t array

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

You are raising -1 to a fractional exponent, so complex numbers will result.

Did you mean something like this instead

t = 0:100;
y = (-1).^t;

[NoYeah]

yes that is what i had expected