issue 7006 - std.math.pow (integral, integral) crashes on negative exponents

[Timon Gehr]

On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 at 19:53:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 at 19:41:22 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> That's precisely why it is funny that the two cases are 
>> handled differently!
>
> I wish I could see the humour in this. I want to laugh as 
> well... :-/
>
> ...

pow(1-ε,∞) is 0.
pow(1+ε,∞) is ∞.

pow is unstable at ∞ as much as at 0. It's plain weird to think 
0.0 is rounded garbage but 1.0 is not, as 1.0+0.0 = 1.0.