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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Arithmetic functions
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.020304.13927@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 2 Mar 91 02:03:04 GMT
References: <2069019@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1991Feb23.001155.3630@convex.com> <11579@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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As quoted from <11579@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by sharon@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sharon Hopkins):
+---------------
| In article <1991Feb23.001155.3630@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
| >...I remember once wanting an abs function, but I contented myself with:
| >    sub abs { ($_[0] < 0) ? -$_[0] : $_[0]; } 
| 
| I guess I won't post my article asking for abs(EXPR) after all.  What is it
| with this newsgroup, that all my questions get answered before I manage to
| ask them?  :-)
+---------------

There've been times I've wanted sin, cos, tan, and ln.  Some of them may even
be in there already (I can't remember the whole manual :-) since some of
Larry's friends at JPL may want them as well... possibly for the same reason.
(I was tempted to request a copy of "kybble" as well, since I have some video
bits to edit.)

++Brandon
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