Exponent floats?

[Puckdropper <fake@fake.org>]

I have an algorithm that requires a floating point exponent.  How can I 
use such a thing?  I tried using **, but it gives me 3 errors:

test.adb:12:24: invalid operand types for operator "**"
test.adb:12:24: left operand has type "Standard.float"
test.adb:12:24: right operand has type "Standard.float"

To demonstrate my problem, I wrote a short program:

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with Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Float_Text_IO;

procedure test is

expon: float;
Answer: float;
Base: float;

begin -- Main Program
	expon := 2.0;
	Base := 2.0;
	Answer := base ** expon;
	Ada.Float_Text_IO.put(Answer);
	Ada.Text_IO.new_line;
end test;

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Thanks,

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