Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Power (Re: all those :-) Message-ID: <7165@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 22 Jan 88 20:54:41 GMT References: <302@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <7139@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3461@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <3461@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704A-Liber,N.) writes: >Yes, but if you know that you are going to be squaring you can replace it >with (expr * expr) (possibly needing temp variables depending on the side >effects concerning expr), or write a macro to do it for you. Gee, thanks, I didn't realize that.. I guess I could also punch holes appropriately in the paper tape for my Turing machine.