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- From: raitano@ocoee.cs.ucf.edu (Tony Raitano )
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx,comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Need scientific math for OS/2 REXX
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.171421.7454@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 17:14:21 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.002238.12130@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul27.002238.12130@tamsun.tamu.edu> dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
- >Has anyone written a REXX library for OS/2 that implements scientific
- >math functions (trigonometric, logarithms, etc.)? I'm *really* needing
- >an exponentiation function that will let me specify a real (versus
- >whole) number for the power, for instance 2**0.93. Right now,
- >the 0.93 is not supported by the ** operator, which takes only
- >whole numbers for the power.
- >
- >Any help is appreciated.
- >
- >Daryl
-
- Can't help you there, but I've written a root function that will figure the
- n'th root (n >0 and an integer). It started out as a square root, but I
- generalized it to n'th root.
-
- Also, a friend of mine wrote a log() function. If anyone wants either of
- these, let me know.
-