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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: exponentiation of fixed point or decimal
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:23:51 +0100
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In my compoenent library
   http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Team/MW/mw_components.html
there is a package called exponentiation_functions that will do what you
want, using the multiplication defined for the fixed point type. You
will have to be careful about roundoff errors, fixed point types can be tricky.