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From: reagan@hiyall.enet.dec.com (John R. Reagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo6.0&NewAnsi
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Date: 25 Oct 90 19:17:47 GMT
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In article <1531@umriscc.isc.umr.edu>, mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) writes...
>I seem to remember seeing/reading/hearing something about ANSI updating the
>Pascal standard to include a built in power function.  Actually, to use 
>base**exponent as in Fortran.  Is this true, or was I just hallucinating??
> 

Yes, the new Extended Pascal standard has added exponentiation.  Actually,
it has added two new operations.  ** to raise things to real powers and
POW to raise things to integer powers.

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John Reagan
Digital Equipment Corporation
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