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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Exponentiation in C (was: How not to write a loop)
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Date: 1 Jul 88 18:52:32 GMT
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In article <820@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>	n = 3^2

You guys must be talking about some other language than C.
That already has a meaning in C; it sets the contents of `n' to 1.