On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro wrote:
> >I don't know anything about Pascal, but shouldn't Sqr(x) be same that
> >x^.5
> > :-) Probabbly Kari Lammassaari has made some routines for this, if
> >there is no
> >more simple solution.
>
> Well, well, well...
>
>
> X X
> A => ln( exp( A )) => ln(X*exp(A))
>
> Hurrah to the good old math!
This is AWFUL math!!! This expression is completely wrong, since exp(A^X)
is totally different from X*exp(A).
I think that you should say:
X X
A => exp( ln( A )) => exp(X*ln(A))
This should give a good result (with some small imprecision).
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