* calc/calc-units.el (math-extract-units): Preserve powers of units.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 4a060875e3c..531ef52a996 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-05-17  Jay Belanger  <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
+
+        * calc/calc-units.el (math-extract-units): Preserve powers
+        of units.
+
 2013-05-17  Leo Liu  <sdl.web@gmail.com>
 
         * subr.el (delete-consecutive-dups): New function.
diff --git a/lisp/calc/calc-units.el b/lisp/calc/calc-units.el
index 0d6f0b0e535..595d875eb6e 100644
--- a/lisp/calc/calc-units.el
+++ b/lisp/calc/calc-units.el
@@ -1497,10 +1497,8 @@ If COMP or STD is non-nil, put that in the units table instead."
    ((memq (car-safe expr) '(* /))
     (cons (car expr)
           (mapcar 'math-extract-units (cdr expr))))
-   ((and
-     (eq (car-safe expr) '^)
-     (math-check-unit-name (nth 1 expr)))
-    expr)
+   ((eq (car-safe expr) '^)
+    (list '^ (math-extract-units (nth 1 expr)) (nth 2 expr)))
    ((math-check-unit-name expr) expr)
    (t 1)))