[ruby-core:100846] [Ruby master Bug#17318] Raising float to the power of other issue

Issue #17318 has been updated by gotoken (Kentaro Goto).


That depends on your purpose or background of the problem. In non-math situations, `power(a, b)` should not return any ordinary number for given `a`<0 where `power(a, b)` stands for "`a` to the power of `b`" over real, just identical to your notation `raise(a, b)`. In such cases, so the function may raise an exception or returns `float::NAN` if `a<0` or `a==0 && b==0` held.

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Bug #17318: Raising float to the power of other issue
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17318#change-88488

* Author: deXterbed (Manoj Mishra)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: 2.6.3
* Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN
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Raising a negative float to another float results in a complex number. Interestingly, doing the same thing without using variables works fine!

Sample Snippet:

$ irb
2.6.3 :001 > x=-0.4790529833050308
 => -0.4790529833050308
2.6.3 :002 > y=0.9918032786885246
 => 0.9918032786885246
2.6.3 :003 > x**y
 => (-0.48179173935576963+0.012409246172848264i)
2.6.3 :004 > -0.4790529833050308**0.9918032786885246
 => -0.4819515219418196



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