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From: ehrlich@bimacs.BITNET (Gideon Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP: Exponentiation?
Message-ID: <2041@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 25 Jul 90 09:41:00 GMT
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Reply-To: ehrlich@bimacs.biu.ac.il.UUCP (Gideon Ehrlich)
Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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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?

Very easy. Either use    x**y = exp(y*ln(x))
           or write your own function ,using Tailor sequence.