In article <90305.005050CJH101 at psuvm.psu.edu> CJH101 at psuvm.psu.edu (Carl J. Hixon) writes: >Why am I unable to find an opperator which raises a number to a power. Because the designers of C decided that it was better to leave such a potentially expensive operation out of the language repertoire and instead relegate it to a math library function, pow().