Re: [genius-list] 5^-1 bug

On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 08:32:42AM -0400, Squeak wrote:
> This bug is present in genius-0.42 too. Whenever a number (int, rat, or
> float) is raised to a negative integer power, something goes wrong.
>
> Basically a typo: when raising a number to a small but negative integer
> power the power was turned into a larger positive number since it was cast
> to unsigned. Thus 5^-1 became 5^(2^32-1) (and then 1/ that).

actually I fixed one of the problems but looking at your patch I found a
larger problem in the mpw_pow_z function and fixed that too

George

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