Negative exponentials produce floats that are typed as ints.

[jfeaver]

Quick Summary: When you raise a number to a negative exponent then you often end up with a fraction. In Elm, the arguments to pow can be specified as Int and then pow (or (^)) returns an Int that should be a Float.

SSCCE (in elm repl)

> a : Int
| a = 2
|
2 : Int
> b : Int
| b = -1
|
-1 : Int
> a ^ b
0.5 : Int

• Elm: 0.19.1
• Browser: N/A
• Operating System: macOS 15.6

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