[Issue 7006] std.math.pow (integral, integral) crashes on negative exponents

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7006

berni44 <bugzilla at d-ecke.de> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from berni44 <bugzilla at d-ecke.de> ---
(In reply to Cristian Creteanu from comment #5)
> I believe that
> pow, no matter the arguments that are provided to it, should always return a
> floating point number.

That would mean pow(4294967290UL,2) == 18446744022169944064 instead of the
correct 18446744022169944100...

If you really need negative powers of integeres, you should cast to floating
point before using pow.

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