[PD] Negative input numbers for [pow] return 0

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

It may be a bit more complex since exponent values between -1 and 1 are the
ones that generate imaginary numbers from negative values, with the
exception of 0 which generates 1. Latest pd-l2ork patch tries to fix this.
See:

https://github.com/pd-l2ork/pd/commit/95d82d33d2580a00e32d725e0f5147d88cdaf3
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> On 2013-04-23 11:50, Joe White wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, are the workarounds suggested more of a result of
> > the difficulty of extending the Pd core rather than the
> > implications that such a change might have?
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> the implementation would be trivial (merely removing the safeguards
> that currently clamp the value to 0)
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> IOhannes
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