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authorKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2022-11-20 21:33:40 -0800
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expt: zero exponent yields 1.0.
* arith.c (expt): NUM-FLNUM, FLNUM-NUM and FLNUM-FLNUM cases ensure that if the expontent is zero, the return value is 1.0. Implementations of pow do this, but ISO C doesn't require it. * txr.1: Now documented.
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@@ -48549,6 +48549,9 @@ operand is converted to a float, and a floating point exponentiation
is performed. Exponentiation that would produce a complex number is
not supported.
+If the exponent is zero, then the return value is 1.0 if at least one operand
+is floating-point, otherwise 1.
+
The
.code sqrt
function produces a floating-point square root of