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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
Message-ID: <10063@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 23:23:57 GMT
References: <47000029@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <47000029@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I've been wondering why there is no power operator in C.

There is:

	#include <math.h>
	...
		double a, x;
		...
		a = pow(x, 7.);

Unless you write `#undef pow' after `#include <math.h>', you may
get in line code (fpushf (fp-4); fftod; fpushd $0d7.0; fexpd etc).
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