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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: School Assignment--Can this be simplified?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 04:14:03 GMT
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In article <4fDr5.155496$i5.2240834@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
  tmoran@bix.com wrote:

> The ** operator, as I read the ARM, only takes integers as the
> exponent.

I am afraid this is not a very good effort at ARM reading!
Certainly if you read the entry on the integer operations
that's what you will find, but in A.5.1 my copy of the RM
has:

  function "**" (Left, Right : Float_Type'Base)
    return Float_Type'Base;

Those don't look like integers to me :-)


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