ovided for octonions in this implementation,
      and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">pow</span></code> is likewise restricted
      to integral powers of the exponent. There are several reasons to this: on the
      one hand, the equivalent of analytic continuation for octonions ("branch
      cuts") remains to be investigated thoroughly (by me, at any rate...),
      and we wish to avoid the nonsense introduced in the standard by exponentiations
      of complexes by complexes (whic