# Built in exponentiation for \`Any\` type

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/built-in-exponentiation-for-any-type/37083
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/built-in-exponentiation-for-any-type/37083 "2020-04-06T00:59:41Z")
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#### Post date: [April 7, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/built-in-exponentiation-for-any-type/37083/7 "2020-04-07T21:19:28Z")

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We actually used to have a `^(::Any, ::Integer)` method defined in 0.6.

[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/23332](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/23332)

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