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    Do not round `a**b` to infinity · 45cd4a82
    Yusuke Endoh authored 
    ... instead, just calculate the value unless it is too big.
Also, this change raises an ArgumentError if it is expected to exceed
16 GB in a 64-bit environment.

(It is possible to calculate it straightforward, but it would likely be
out-of-memory, so I didn't think it would make sense.)

[Feature #20811]
    45cd4a82
    Do not round `a**b` to infinity
    Yusuke Endoh authored 
    ... instead, just calculate the value unless it is too big.
Also, this change raises an ArgumentError if it is expected to exceed
16 GB in a 64-bit environment.

(It is possible to calculate it straightforward, but it would likely be
out-of-memory, so I didn't think it would make sense.)

[Feature #20811]