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From: randy@cs.tamu.edu (Randy Hutson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: # to the nth power
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Date: 1 Nov 90 18:28:44 GMT
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In article <15984@mentor.cc.purdue.edu-> edgincd2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Chris Edgington *Computer Science Major*) writes:
->In article <90305.005050CJH101@psuvm.psu.edu->, CJH101@psuvm.psu.edu (Carl J. Hixon) writes:
->-> I appologize for bothering you computer wizards with such an elementary
->-> question but, I'm floundering.  Why am I unable to find an opperator which
->-> raises a number to a power. (The fortran equivalent of x**n)  Is there such
->
->I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but this is a neat little
->trick to take a number to a power.
->
->     Answer = exp(ln(Root)*Exponent);
->
->Chris Edgington

I use an even neater trick!
	
	Answer = pow(Root, Exponent);