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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!barmar
  2. From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Subject: Re: power
  5. Date: 19 Aug 1992 03:59:53 GMT
  6. Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
  7. Lines: 14
  8. Message-ID: <16sgvpINN989@early-bird.think.com>
  9. References: <IeYOkQy00iQQ8sCkN7@andrew.cmu.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com
  11.  
  12. In article <IeYOkQy00iQQ8sCkN7@andrew.cmu.edu> Gary Hooyman <gh1h+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
  13. >Does anyone have a general (power base-number power-number) that works
  14. >better than Lucid's implementation of (expt bn pn)?  
  15. >
  16. >-> (expt 0.658 .5)
  17. >1.8641498069802828E9
  18.  
  19. What kind of system are you on?  It works fine for me in Sun CL 4.0.{0,1},
  20. LCL/SPARC 4.1 beta, and LCL/VAX 2.5.
  21. -- 
  22. Barry Margolin
  23. System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
  24.  
  25. barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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