Re^2: Strange Logic in Power of arithmetic

Active State 5.8.8 on Win64 line 1: -8 line 2: -1.#IND line 3: Illegal division by zero at -e line 1 line 4: -2147483645
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Interesting. Not on darwin:

$ perlbrew exec perl 1152551.pl 
perl-5.8.8
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Power of calculation test
line 1: -8
line 2: nan
line 3: nan
line 4: nan
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The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^3: Strange Logic in Power of arithmetic by ExReg (Priest) on Jan 12, 2016 at 16:18 UTC
Win 7 64 bit, ActiveState 5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multithread Binary build 817	[reply]