a**b gives nonsense results for large b

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a**b gives nonsense results for large b #19

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

E.g. 100**(100**100) = 1

We either need to switch to an exact implementation of (**) which can
handle BigInteger exponents, or explicitly mark (**) as an inexact
operation and apply conversion rules as determined by issue 18.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by adrianqu...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2009 at 3:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by adrianqu...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2009 at 3:04

Changed title: ab gives nonsense results for large b**

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

This issue was closed by revision r3047.

Original comment by jthywissen on 2 May 2012 at 9:49

Changed state: Fixed