Bug #10989: Complex Exponentiation

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.0p0 (2014-12-25 revision 49005) [x86_64-darwin13]
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN

[keith__ng (Keith ng)]

Hello, it looks a sort of bug to me, doesn't it?

ruby -e 'p (1i) ** (2.0)'
(-1.0+1.2246467991473532e-16i)

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

It's not a bug but just a floating point arithmetic error.

$ ruby -e 'p 1i ** 2'
(-1+0i)