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From: V4039%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Stan Horwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power operator?
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Date: 7 Jan 88 19:24:21 GMT
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  Chris Torek says the function pow(x,y) in C's math library is C's power
operator.  Sorry Chris, the pow(x,y) is not an operator, it is a FUNCTION.
Syntactically, there is a difference, though the result is the same.
The question still stands.  Why does C have no symbol to serve as a power
operator.  There are so many symbols to use, and it would be easy to implement.
  Stan Horwitz   V4039 at TEMPLEVM