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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: # to the nth power
Message-ID: <14375@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Nov 90 10:47:30 GMT
References: <90305.005050CJH101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <90305.005050CJH101@psuvm.psu.edu> CJH101@psuvm.psu.edu (Carl J. Hixon) writes:
>Why am I unable to find an opperator which raises a number to a power.

Because the designers of C decided that it was better to leave such a
potentially expensive operation out of the language repertoire and instead
relegate it to a math library function, pow().