errno delenda est. (was inlining pow(x,two))

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Thu Apr 4 07:24:00 PST 1991


In what sense does awk or xcalc break?  If errno doesn't get set and
awk prints NaN someplace, is that so bad?  I went down the hall and
confirmed that Brian Kernighan, the owner of awk if anyone is, cares
not one whit if errno goes away.



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