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From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Ada83 Exponentiation HELP !!!
Date: 1999/12/14
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"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?
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