Re^2: How to get better exponentiation?

> Note that the floating point value 1/3 is not the same as the rational value 1/3,

Good point, that might explain why it's considered undefined behavior by many.

And an approximation algorithm designed to work with floating point exponents won't be able to handle anything like 1/$odd differently.

Cheers Rolf
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