[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60786] mpower: negative scalar to power of matrix containing non-integers returns nan

[Rik]

Update of bug #60786 (project octave):

                  Status:               Confirmed => Ready For Test         

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Follow-up Comment #6:

Do you have a test case for scalars raised to complex powers that I can use
for testing?

I asked about the complicated structure of xpow.cc at an Octave Developer's
Meeting today.  The reason is that this was coded back in the late '90s before
templating was widespread.  Simplification is possible, but the easiest thing
right now is just to fix the code, rather than rewrite this file.  Maybe
sometime in the future that can happen.

I pushed a changeset here
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/540f25090412) that fixes the
example cited in comment #0.

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