Dear Ivo, The GAP functionality for Floats is not documented and may be changed in the future. In GAP 4.4.12, to use x^y for floats, it's important to remember that x must be a float, otherwise an error will occur. To create floats, call Float with an integer to create a corresponding float, or with a string representation of a float, if it has a decimal point. For example:
gap> Float("2.3")^3; 12.167 gap> Float("2.3")^Float("3.53"); 18.919 gap> Float(2)^Float("3.53"); 11.5514 gap> Float("2")^Float("3.53"); 11.5514 Hope this helps, Alexander On 6 Feb 2011, at 17:16, Ivo Hedtke wrote: > Dear Forum, > > is there a possibility to compute x^y with Floats in GAP? I found LOG_FLOAT > for example, but I didn't found something for x^y. > > Sincerely, > Ivo > > _______________________________________________ > Forum mailing list > Forum@mail.gap-system.org > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum