https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148488
--- Comment #8 from mwelin...@gmail.com --- > why would someone claim that returning one of those is correct, > and returning another is wrong? There are actually good reasons for picking 1.116225+0.810985*i, but only if you already think of it as a complex-valued function. It is what you get with x^y defined as exp(y*log(x)) and the standard branch cut of log. Mathematica follows that, fwiw. If you think of x^y as a real valued function then -1.3 is the only choice. And thinking of x^y this way is quite reasonable for a spreadsheet. For completeness, if you think of x and y as IEEE-854 numbers, then an error is the only reasonable result. y here is 3602879701896397/2^54. That's an even denominator. But in none of those cases does it seem reasonable to bite the head off the reporter. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
