From 1333049818235476834 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,9a5d91576ea14293 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,42ca30940288d269 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-01 20:55:36 PST Xref: sparky comp.lang.c++:5463 comp.std.c++:256 Path: sparky!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!news.bbn.com!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!psuvax1!rutgers!att!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!ark From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: X to the Y power, how? Message-ID: <22310@alice.att.com> Date: 1 Mar 92 14:59:17 GMT References: <50175@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Feb27.135250.25403@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Feb27.223558.276@rice.edu> <22292@alice.att.com> <22305@alice.att.com> <1992Mar1.021321.17871@rice.edu> Reply-To: ark@alice.UUCP () Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ Lines: 11 In article <1992Mar1.021321.17871@rice.edu> dougm@rice.edu (Doug Moore) writes: > And that's all the ARM says about the meanings of the basic operators > for floating quantities. Why? Because the emphasis in C++ is always > on accepting whatever answer the implementation can give us cheaply. And since most implementations cannot give us exponentiation cheaply, C does not include it at all. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@europa.att.com