"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:

> Thanks.  But the mystery deepens. I found a web page mentioning an ANSI standard:
>
> http://www.thinkage.com/expl/c/lib/pow.html
>
> |  <math.h>
> |  z = pow( x, y );
> |  Description:
> |  "pow" returns "x" to the power "y". If "x" and "y" are both zero, or if "x" is
> |  non-positive and "y" is not an integer, "pow" return -HUGE_VAL and sets
> |  "errno" to EDO
>
> I have little understanding of this stuff, but pov seems to be doing something
> different.

    If this is the issue, the current vice the older one that POV implements, is like
exp(4096).

    If that guess is valid ... comments?

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