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I ran some testing (comparing to `std::pow(double(x), double(y)))` for `x` in the set of all (positive) floats in the interval `[std::sqrt(std::numeric_limits<float>::min()), std::sqrt(std::numeric_limits<float>::max())]`, and `y` in `{2, sqrt(2), -sqrt(2)}` I get the following error statistics:
```
max_rel_error = 8.34405e-07
rms_rel_error = 2.76654e-07
```
If I widen the range to all normal float I see lower accuracy for arguments where the result is subnormal, e.g. for `y = sqrt(2)`:
```
max_rel_error = 0.666667
rms = 6.8727e-05
count = 1335165689
argmax = 2.56049e-32, 2.10195e-45 != 1.4013e-45
```
which seems reasonable, since these results are subnormals with only couple of significant bits left.