First a bit of deconfusion: negative exponents just mean x⁻² = 1/x². That works
just fine and is not relevant to this ticket:
m: say (-2) ** -2
rakudo-moar 605f27: OUTPUT«0.25»
Fractional exponents mean the number is raised to the power of the numerator
and then the
First a bit of deconfusion: negative exponents just mean x⁻² = 1/x². That works
just fine and is not relevant to this ticket:
m: say (-2) ** -2
rakudo-moar 605f27: OUTPUT«0.25»
Fractional exponents mean the number is raised to the power of the numerator
and then the
On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 05:19:49AM -0700, Itsuki Toyota wrote:
> See the following results
>
> $ perl6 -e 'say -1 ** -0.1'
> -1
> $ perl6 -e 'say reduce * ** *, -1, (-0.1)'
> NaN
This is not a bug in "reduce" itself. Exponentiation has higher
precedence than unary minus, so the first
On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 05:19:49AM -0700, Itsuki Toyota wrote:
> See the following results
>
> $ perl6 -e 'say -1 ** -0.1'
> -1
> $ perl6 -e 'say reduce * ** *, -1, (-0.1)'
> NaN
This is not a bug in "reduce" itself. Exponentiation has higher
precedence than unary minus, so the first
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See the following results
$ perl6 -e 'say -1 ** -0.1'
-1
$ perl6 -e 'say reduce * **
