Re: Should not integer exponentiation work when it works?

[Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>]

If a is non-negative:

1) Do float calculation, as usual: result = a^b

2) If result is less that 2^53, then convert it to integer and return integer result

3) If result is above 2^63, then return float result
4) Recalculate the result using integer multiplication and return it

On step 2 float number should be rounded to nearest integer, so it would be better to have some spare precision:
2) If result is less that 2^50, then return nearest integer to result