Actually our coding style does cover this particular case, and Néstor is absolutely right:
```
// CORRECT
m_pep = m_pep * std::pow(base, losses + 1.0) +
        (1.0 - std::pow(base, losses));
```
https://github.com/steinwurf/steinwurf-labs/blob/master/docs/coding_style.rst at Line 214