Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent
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- Subject: Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: 2014年4月14日 10:48:41 -0300
> What about the overflow case? What are your thoughts as a member of
> the core Lua team -- should exponentiation in the overflow case return
> an incorrect value, return a float value, or do something else?
It is doing what all other operations are doing: wraping around (that is,
it returns the correct arithmetic result modulo 2^64).
-- Roberto