From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Ada83 Exponentiation HELP !!!
Date: 1999/12/14
Date: 1999-12-14T09:42:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3puw9uacy.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3855ab32.0@news.pacifier.com
"DuckE" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com> writes:
| It's been years since I've dealt with evaluating things like this, but as I
| recall 6^(1.3) is equivalent to:
|
| Exp( 1.3 * Log( 6 ) )
^^^
Just to make it clear, Log here must be the natural logarithm Ln
Ln(a^b) = b*Ln(a)
a^b = exp(b*Ln(a)) ; a > 0
Isn't this correct?
--
Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]
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-- Athol Fugard
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-13 0:00 Ada83 Exponentiation HELP !!! jxredi
1999-12-13 0:00 ` DuckE
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Gautier
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