Just ran into a complex number problem by taking the cubed root of a negative number `(-4.0).pow(1.0...

# mathematics

[thomasnield]

Just ran into a complex number problem by taking the cubed root of a negative number (-4.0).pow(1.0/3.0), which returns NaN due to lack of support for imaginary numbers. However, Java has Math.cbrt() specifically for this purpose. Is this something Kotlin should explicitly support?

[ValV]

b.pow(x) is NaN for b < 0 and x is finite and not an integer

Even without support for complex numbers, library function pow must understand x as not an integer, I think