At 10:08 21/12/98 -0200, Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz 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).
Awful? Are u really up to your mind? It's a matter of opinion, only.
>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).
Well, as u may know, there isn't any difference in the mathematical
way. Maybe your version of the equation works better with computers. And
I'm a mathematician, u know, so I know at least a bit of arithmetics.
ByE!
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