On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:15:46PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:

>    unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an exponentiation operator in
>    Perl..

Orly, meron...

>From `perldoc perlop`
      Exponentiation

       Binary "**" is the exponentiation operator.  It binds even
       more tightly than unary minus, so -2**4 is -(2**4), not
       (-2)**4. (This is implemented using C's pow(3) function,
       which actually works on doubles internally.)

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$_=q:; # SHERWIN #
70;72;69;6e;74;20;
27;4a;75;73;74;20;
61;6e;6f;74;68;65;
72;20;50;65;72;6c;
20;6e;6f;76;69;63;
65;27;:;;s=~?(..);
?=pack q$C$,hex$1;
;;;=ge;;;;;eval;;;
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