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  1. Organization: Masters student, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!udel!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!gh1h+
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Message-ID: <IeYOkQy00iQQ8sCkN7@andrew.cmu.edu>
  5. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:04:12 -0400 
  6. From: Gary Hooyman <gh1h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  7. Subject: power
  8. Lines: 17
  9.  
  10. Hello,
  11.  
  12. Does anyone have a general (power base-number power-number) that works
  13. better than Lucid's implementation of (expt bn pn)?  
  14.  
  15. -> (expt 0.658 .5)
  16. 1.8641498069802828E9
  17.  
  18.  
  19. I need something that at least gets close!  Maybe this is a bug in my
  20. version? (v 4.0)
  21.  
  22. Thanks
  23.  
  24. Gary Hooyman
  25. Department of Civil Engineering
  26. Carnegie Mellon University
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