[A89] Re: Exponents
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[A89] Re: Exponents
Thanks. I had spent quite a while looking in the help file, but I was
searching for "exponent" and I didn't think to try "power" ehhhhh.....
stupid me :-\
Brett
----- Original Message -----
From: "JP Urban" <cyberchrist@futura.net>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 9:49 PM
Subject: [A89] Re: Exponents
>
> Might I suggest reading the help file?
>
> If you'll check the library file, math.h, you'll find that it has a
> perfectly functional pow() function already included. When writing
> programs that involve any complicated math (anything besides +, -, *, /,
> %), math.h is your friend.
>
> for example:
>
> pow(5, 6);
>
> will present a warning (loss of precision casting ints as floats) but the
> answer will be correctly 15625.0000000000f (or however precise it'd be as
a
> float)
>
> Just make certain that you'll never be taking an even root of a negative
> number. Most systems flag this as an error. TIGCC apparently does not
and
> returns garbage.
>
> math.h is your friend.
>
>
> At 08:21 PM 6/16/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Hey all,
> >
> >Anyone know how to do exponents in C, such as 5 to the 6th power and
such?
> >I looked in help, but all the funcitons I found having to do with
exponents
> >didn't seem to be just plain exponents. Am I just missing something or
is
> >that not possible in C?
> >
> >Brett
>
>
>
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