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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: # to the nth power
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Date: 2 Nov 90 01:58:02 GMT
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In article <1990Nov1.232830.17131@NCoast.ORG> catfood@NCoast.ORG (Mark W. Schumann) writes:
>In article <9750@helios.TAMU.EDU> randy@cs.tamu.edu (Randy Hutson) writes:
>>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)  


The original poster said he was looking for an **operator**, not
a function. Now, a function (inlined or not) may or may not make
him happy.

Doug McDonald