In article <3CB### [at] gmxde> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> All right, then i would suggest adding something like the following to the
> pow() documentation (section 6.1.3.6):
>
> "pow(A,B) Exponentiation. Returns the value of A raised to the power B.
> Alternatively the hat operator can be used A^B.  For negative A and
> non-integer B the function has no defined return value, the result then
> may depend on the platform POV-Ray is compiled on."

Sounds like a good addition as it also covers other possibly defective
platforms.  Nevertheless, if fixing the Visual C library is possible, this
will of course be the preferred fix of this problem in the official version.

    Thorsten

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