2 power - evaluate a numerical power to specified accuracy
10 eps nonzero real, defaults to epsilon()
15 For real or complex x and y, power(x,y,eps) returns a real or
16 complex number for which the real and imaginary parts are multiples
17 of epsilon differing from the true real and imaginary parts of the
18 principal y-th power of x by less than 0.75 * abs(eps), usually by
19 less than 0.5 * abs(eps). If the principal y-th power of x is a
20 multiple of eps, it will be returned exactly.
22 If y is a large integer but x^y is not large, and accuracy
23 represented by eps is all that is required, power(x,y,eps) may be
24 considerably faster than appr(x^y, eps, 24), the difference between
25 the two results being probably at most abs(eps).
28 > print power(1.2345, 10, 1e-5), power(1.2345, 10, 1e-10)
31 > print power(1+3i, 3, 1e-5), power(1 + 3i, 2+ 1i, 1e-5)
32 -26-18i -2.50593-1.39445i
34 > print power(1+ 1e-30, 1e30, 1e-20)
35 2.71828182845904523536
37 > print power(1i, 1i, 1e-20)
40 > print power(exp(1, 1e-20), pi(1e-20) * 1i/2, 1e-20)
44 If x = 0, y in power(x,y,eps) has to have positive real part,
45 except in the case of y = 0; power(0, 0, eps) is the multiple of
51 void powervalue(VALUE *x, VALUE *y, VALUE *eps, VALUE *result)
52 NUMBER *qpower(NUMBER *x, NUMBER *y, NUMBER *eps)
53 COMPLEX *cpower(COMPLEX *x, COMPLEX *y, NUMBER *eps)