Re: School Assignment--Can this be simplified?

["Nick J Chackowsky" <nick@arcticmail.com>]

Okay, how embarassing. Of course that works. I had tried it before and was
getting compile errors, but I needed to use the ** operator from
ada.numerics.elementary_functions rather than the default ** operator. What
a GOOF I am.

Thanks again for all the help, Pascal.

Bye.


"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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>
> N J Chackowsky <chackowsky@brandonsd.mb.ca> writes:
>
> > And here's the revised version. Interesting that there is no pow()
> > function defined in elementary_functions at all.
>
> Sure there is ! What about the "**" operator :)
>
> > Where should I look for
> > standard numerical constants such as e, pi, etc.?
> >
>
> In Ada.Numerics.
>
> <<
>   3.      package Ada.Numerics is
>              pragma Pure(Numerics);
>              Argument_Error : exception;
>              Pi : constant :=
>
3.14159_26535_89793_23846_26433_83279_50288_41971_69399_37511;
>              e  : constant :=
>
2.71828_18284_59045_23536_02874_71352_66249_77572_47093_69996;
>           end Ada.Numerics;
> >>
>
> Pascal.
>
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