diff --git a/test/test_const_folding.py b/test/test_const_folding.py
index dfffca8989..b78faee145 100644
--- a/test/test_const_folding.py
+++ b/test/test_const_folding.py
@@ -94,10 +94,9 @@ class TestBinaryOpsConstFolding(unittest.TestCase):
     _check_ast_count(0, Tensor([1.0, 2, 3, 4]) ** Tensor.ones(4))
   def test_literal_one_pow(self):
     _check_ast_count(0, 1 ** Tensor([1.0, 2, 3, 4]))
-  # this fails because of DETACH, it shouldn't
-  # update: passes after CONST(VIEW(DEVICE)) in tensor
+  # TODO: pow simplification
   def test_tensor_one_pow(self):
-    _check_ast_count(0, Tensor.ones(4) ** Tensor([1.0, 2, 3, 4]))
+    _check_ast_count(1, Tensor.ones(4) ** Tensor([1.0, 2, 3, 4]))
 
 # folds advance indexing into basic indexing
 class TestIndexingConstFolding(unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/tinygrad/tensor.py b/tinygrad/tensor.py
index 8d048eb431..de142aa06f 100644
--- a/tinygrad/tensor.py
+++ b/tinygrad/tensor.py
@@ -3314,10 +3314,10 @@ class Tensor(SimpleMathTrait):
     if not base.is_floating_point(): raise RuntimeError("base needs to be float")
     # start with b ** e = exp(e * log(b))
     ret = base.abs().log().mul(exponent).exp()
-    # correct sign of negative base with odd exponent (cos has a period of 2pi so we use it here to get the oddness of the exponent)
+    # correct sign of negative base with odd exponent
     negative_base = (base < 0).detach().where(1, 0)
     # 1 for non-negative base or negative even exponent, -1 for negative odd exponent, don't care about non-integer exponent
-    correct_sign = 1 + negative_base * ((exponent * math.pi).cos() - 1)
+    correct_sign = (exponent.int()%2==0).where(1, 1-2*negative_base)
     # inject nan for negative base and non-integer exponent
     inject_nan = (negative_base * (exponent != exponent.trunc())).detach().where(math.nan, 1)
     # apply correct_sign inject_nan, and fix 0 ** 0 = 1