# to the nth power

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Nov3.204327.19057 at NCoast.ORG> catfood at NCoast.ORG (Mark W. Schumann) writes:
>You are simply not allowed to assume *anything* about the internal
>representation of integers if your programs are to be 100% portable ANSI.

Hey, that's not true.  Look it up.