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-rw-r--r--lib/mathn.rb32
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5a614f467b..f33887c12e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Sep 24 10:06:19 2009 Marc-Andre Lafortune <ruby-core@marc-andre.ca>
+
+ * lib/mathn.rb (Fixnum#**, Float#**, Bignum#**): Allow fractional
+ power for negative numbers when 'mathn' is required [redmine:783]
+
Wed Sep 23 05:36:55 2009 Marc-Andre Lafortune <ruby-core@marc-andre.ca>
* eval.c (umethod_bind): Fix bug that disallowed methods from
diff --git a/lib/mathn.rb b/lib/mathn.rb
index 482a4f366a..7d16923670 100644
--- a/lib/mathn.rb
+++ b/lib/mathn.rb
@@ -108,10 +108,30 @@ end
class Fixnum
alias / quo
+
+ alias power! ** unless method_defined? :power!
+
+ def ** (other)
+ if self < 0 && other.round != other
+ Complex.new(self, 0.0) ** other
+ else
+ power!(other)
+ end
+ end
end
class Bignum
alias / quo
+
+ alias power! ** unless method_defined? :power!
+
+ def ** (other)
+ if self < 0 && other.round != other
+ Complex.new(self, 0.0) ** other
+ else
+ power!(other)
+ end
+ end
end
class Rational
@@ -306,3 +326,15 @@ class Complex
Unify = true
end
+class Float
+ alias power! **
+
+ def ** (other)
+ if self < 0 && other.round != other
+ Complex.new(self, 0.0) ** other
+ else
+ power!(other)
+ end
+ end
+
+end