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diff --git a/src/floatfns.c b/src/floatfns.c
index 529e7b76e39..cbcc0bfe520 100644
--- a/src/floatfns.c
+++ b/src/floatfns.c
@@ -460,7 +460,8 @@ DEFUN ("expt", Fexpt, Sexpt, 2, 2, 0,
CHECK_NUMBER_OR_FLOAT (arg1);
CHECK_NUMBER_OR_FLOAT (arg2);
if (INTEGERP (arg1) /* common lisp spec */
- && INTEGERP (arg2)) /* don't promote, if both are ints */
+ && INTEGERP (arg2) /* don't promote, if both are ints, and */
+ && 0 <= XINT (arg2)) /* we are not computing the -ARG2 root */
{ /* this can be improved by pre-calculating */
EMACS_INT acc, x, y; /* some binary powers of x then accumulating */
Lisp_Object val;