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 ceiling x -- ceiling
 x ** y    -- power (e.g. floating-point exponentiation)
-x ^ y     -- power (e.g. integer exponentiation, positive y only)
+x ^ y     -- power (e.g. integer exponentiation, nonnegative y only)
-x ^^ y    -- power (e.g. rational exponentiation, also negative y)
+x ^^ y    -- power (e.g. integer exponentiation of rationals, also negative y)
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