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From: granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP: Exponentiation?
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Date: 25 Jul 90 12:33:01 GMT
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In article <950036@hpclapd.HP.COM>, defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
writes:
> Perhaps I'm just brain-dead  and unable to  hear the  doctor  pronnounce me
> comotose (sp?) but how to you do exponentiation in TP 4.0  (or 5.0 or 5.5).
> I scanned the section about arithmetic operators in the TP book that I have
> (5.5) and  searched the index but I  found no mention on exponentiation and
> the usually "**" operator only produced a compile error.  What gives?

Nothing gives.  There's no built-in operator in Turbo Pascal for
exponentiation.  Write a function instead.

Of course, if you are using C++, you could overload an operator, like ^ for
example.

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