On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:33:02 -0700, Bryan R Harris wrote: > Thank you, everyone! > > Note, it appears that the fifth root of -12.17 is not complex, try this: > > % perl -wle '$_=(-1.648382957144284)**5; print' > > ... but I don't blame perl for not finding it.
The fact that 0.2 has no exact binary representation isn't going to help. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
