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

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On Sunday, 15 December 2019 at 18:31:14 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 15.12.19 19:22, berni44 wrote:
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>> What do you think about this?
>> 
>> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7006
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> A negative exponent should behave like a negative exponent. 
> I.e., a^^-1 = 1/a. There's no good reason to do anything else.

+1

There's no grey area IMO. Mathematically pow is defined for 
negative exponents, even if almost all the time the result would 
be truncated to zero when computing an integer result, that's 
what it should do.