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**(p1) public

Raises float to the power of other.

2.0**3      #=> 8.0

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static VALUE
flo_pow(VALUE x, VALUE y)
{
    if (RB_TYPE_P(y, T_FIXNUM)) {
        return DBL2NUM(pow(RFLOAT_VALUE(x), (double)FIX2LONG(y)));
    }
    else if (RB_TYPE_P(y, T_BIGNUM)) {
        return DBL2NUM(pow(RFLOAT_VALUE(x), rb_big2dbl(y)));
    }
    else if (RB_TYPE_P(y, T_FLOAT)) {
        {
            double dx = RFLOAT_VALUE(x);
            double dy = RFLOAT_VALUE(y);
            if (dx < 0 && dy != round(dy))
                return rb_funcall(rb_complex_raw1(x), rb_intern("**"), 1, y);
            return DBL2NUM(pow(dx, dy));
        }
    }
    else {
        return rb_num_coerce_bin(x, y, rb_intern("**"));
    }
}

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