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From: daver@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Dave Rabinowitz)
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Subject: Re: pow(3M) may have a bug or undocumented limitation
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 00:08:04 EDT
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>..............  For example, the 12th root of 2 --> 2 ^ (-12) --> pow(2,-12).

Actually, 2 ^ (-12) = 1 / (2 ^ 12)

the 12th root of 2 is   2 ^ (1/12)    and the exponent is not an integer.