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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen.apl.jhu.edu!hall
  2. From: hall@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Subject: Re: power
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug19.140358.5170@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
  6. Date: 19 Aug 92 14:03:58 GMT
  7. References: <IeYOkQy00iQQ8sCkN7@andrew.cmu.edu>
  8. Reply-To: hall@aplcen (Marty Hall)
  9. Organization: AAI Corp AI Lab, JHU P/T CS Faculty
  10. Lines: 16
  11.  
  12. In article <IeYOkQy00iQQ8sCkN7@andrew.cmu.edu> gh1h+@andrew.cmu.edu 
  13. (Gary Hooyman) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Does anyone have a general (power base-number power-number) that works
  16. >better than Lucid's implementation of (expt bn pn)?  
  17. >
  18. >-> (expt 0.658 .5)
  19. >1.8641498069802828E9
  20. >
  21. >I need something that at least gets close!  Maybe this is a bug in my
  22. >version? (v 4.0)
  23.  
  24. 4.0.1 and the older 4.0 (that came with KEE) on the Sun both work fine.
  25.  
  26.                         - Marty
  27. (proclaim '(inline skates))
  28.