[Mono-bugs] [Bug 43018][Nor] Changed - Mono is unable to evaluate Math.Pow (-2, (+/-)1E300))

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Changed by dietmar@ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43018

--- shadow/43018	Fri May 30 10:26:45 2003
+++ shadow/43018.tmp.11881	Fri May 30 10:31:39 2003
@@ -61,6 +61,18 @@
 This is from the Rotor test suite. Adding dependency.
 
 ------- Additional Comments From dietmar@ximian.com  2003-05-30 10:26 -------
 Created an attachment (id=4503)
 a more complete set of tests
 
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+------- Additional Comments From dietmar@ximian.com  2003-05-30 10:31 -------
+I dont understand the code in Math.Pow() - looks strange. 
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+I also detected a few strange cases:
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+Math.Pow (1, Infinity) return Infinity on MS .NET (I would expect 1)
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+pow (-1, -1.E+300) return NAN on RH8 (I would expect 1)
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