the pow() function doesn't obey the "Principle of least surprise"

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2025-05-13 15:27:51 +0000, ROBERT NELSON wrote:
> It is well documented that pow(a,b) returns Nan if a 9s negative and
> b is real.

No, this is not how pow() is specified. It seems that you want powr().

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