I will give it a shot.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> Yep.  There's not much consistency in inf/nan handling across platforms,
> though the situation is slowly getting better.  math.pow makes an effort
> to handle these special cases correctly (for some value of correctly), and
> it would probably make some sense to have the builtin pow behave the same
> way.
>
> Would you be interested in contributing a fix?
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