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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power (Re: all those :-)
Message-ID: <7139@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 Jan 88 15:52:09 GMT
References: <302@Aragorn.dde.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <302@Aragorn.dde.uucp> be@dde.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>Pick up any first grade textbook on numerical analysis, and you will
>be told NEVER to use a power function like that.  ...
>Thus: Power with integer exponent is not needed!

That's what you get for picking up first grade textbooks!

If you do much geometric programming at all, you quickly realize
that the squaring operator (expr ** 2) is quite heavily used.