# to the nth power

[Jonathan W Miner]

In article <90305.005050CJH101 at psuvm.psu.edu> CJH101 at psuvm.psu.edu (Carl J. Hixon) writes:
>I appologize for bothering you computer wizards with such an elementary
>question but, I'm floundering.  Why am I unable to find an opperator which
>raises a number to a power. (The fortran equivalent of x**n)  Is there such
>an opporator or do I need to write my own function?  It seems like a terrible
>oversite to me that such a common operation was overlooked.

There is a standard C function pow(x,y) which returns x raised to the y.
:x

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