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From: reagan@hiyall.enet.dec.com (John R. Reagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: RE: TP: Exponentiation?
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Date: 30 Jul 90 14:00:04 GMT
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In article <23995@adm.BRL.MIL>, mecklenburg@storm.dnet.nasa.gov writes...
>There is no exponentation in Pascal.  You will probably have to
>write your own function to perform this task we take for granted in
>other high level programming languages.
> 
> 
In the new Extended Pascal standard (already approved by ANSI, IEEE, & BSR),
the Pascal committee has added exponentiation to the language.  As a matter
of fact, we added TWO operators.  We added "**" for raising things to
real powers and "POW" for raising things to integer powers.

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John Reagan
Digital Equipment Corporation
reagan@hiyall.dec.com
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