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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: # to the nth power
Message-ID: <4200@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 5 Nov 90 04:12:46 GMT
References: <90305.005050CJH101@psuvm.psu.edu> <prk.657559483@pegasus>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <prk.657559483@pegasus>, prk@planet.bt.co.uk (Peter Knight) writes:
> The likely offered solutions in C, involving ln()/exp() or the pow() functions
> are not going to be a capable as Fortran's x**n.  These functions cannot cope
> with Fortran legal operations like (-1e6)**10.

This claim is false.  C's pow() function is precisely as capable as
Fortran's ** operator.  In particular,
	#include <math.h>
	...
	x = pow(-1.0e6, (double)10);
will set x to 1.0e60.  pow() checks for integral exponents.
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