[PD] pow/pow~ and negative input, a fix proposal

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Wed May 9 19:13:56 CEST 2018


2018-05-09 13:53 GMT-03:00 Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com>:

>
>> I just tried this in Max6:
> [pow 2] with a negative input gives a correct positive result.
> [pow 0.5] with negative input sets a floatnumberbox to 'nan',
>

yeah, but try it with [pow~] in max, you'll see that it will filter it out
and make it output "0", in the same way I was telling you about the other
signal objects that can generate inf/nan (I gave the example of atanh~).
Currently, it seems only signal bitwise operator objects in max can
potentially create inf/nan, and they have a [bitsafe~] object to deal with
that (one which we also cloned for cyclone).


> but [print]s the value '-1.#IND00'.
>

are you on windows?


>  In max, neither of these works in a [sel].
>

yep, so it'd make sense to avoid them
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