[issue6188] Error Evaluating float(x) ** float(y)

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[issue6188] Error Evaluating float(x) ** float(y)

Mark Dickinson added the comment: This is not a bug: Python's operator precedence rules mean that the expression -6.276479035564047 ** -5.7974497499584849 is treated as: -(6.276479035564047 ** -5.7974497499584849). >>> a = -6.276479035564047 >>> b = -5.7974497499584849 >>> a ** b != -6

[issue6188] Error Evaluating float(x) ** float(y)

Jean-Paul Calderone added the comment: Have you checked to see what the result of a ** b is? -- nosy: +exarkun ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6188] Error Evaluating float(x) ** float(y)

New submission from Stephen Paul Chappell : This is what I get while the interactive interpreter (IDLE 3.0.1) on the platform Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 >>> a = -6.276479035564047 >>> b = -5.7974497499584849 >>> a ** b != -6.2764790355