Math::...:PowInt(3pm)

💖 Math::...:PowInt — the perldoc tea 💖

Okay bestie, gather round, because this is the user-contributed Perl documentation for Math::...:PowInt, aka Math::GSL::PowInt, and it's genuinely so cute. It's the manual page you get when you run perldoc on it, and it's giving "tiny module, big heart" energy. Let's get into it. ✨

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👑 NAME

Math::GSL::PowInt — Integer Power functions. That's it, that's the name, no notes. 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS

Look at this little demo, it's iconic:

use Math::GSL::PowInt qw /gsl_pow_2 gsl_pow_4 gsl_pow_int/;
print '2**4  = ' . gsl_pow_2(4) . "\n";
print '4**7  = ' . gsl_pow_4(7) . "\n";
print '17**5 = ' . gsl_pow_int(17,5) . "\n";

Notice how the little string labels are ✨vibes✨ and not necessarily matching the math — the code is code, we do not touch it. What you see is what you run, no cap. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

So this module implements the GSL Integer Power functions, which let you quickly compute a given integer raised to any real number. It's got gsl_pow_2 all the way up through gsl_pow_9, plus gsl_pow_int.

And if you need a power higher than 9? Lowkey not a problem, bestie — just use gsl_pow_int, which takes the base as the first argument and the power being raised to as the second argument.

You can also write

"use Math::GSL::PowInt qw/:all/;"

to use literally every available function in the module. Slay. 🌈

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💜 PURPOSE

Real talk: this module doesn't provide much of a performance improvement over the Perl builtin ** operator. It's included for completeness. That's the whole purpose. It's here, it exists, it's doing its thing, and we respect it for that. 🎀

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🔥 BENCHMARKS

DANAJ has included some benchmarks in a bug report: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96440

(That's the whole section. Short and sweet. We love a section that minds its own business.) 💖

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🧚 AUTHORS

• Jonathan "Duke" Leto — jonathan@leto.net
• Thierry Moisan — thierry.moisan@gmail.com

Two absolute legends. 👑

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⭐ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008-2024 Jonathan "Duke" Leto and Thierry Moisan.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Periodt. 💅

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Okay that's the whole page, bestie — no skipped sections, no missing flags, nothing lost in the group chat. 🫶

And a cute little sign-off, because you deserve it: this whole thing is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20. Iconic behavior from start to finish. ✨🌸💖