From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org>
To: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Subject: Re: problemes mathematiques
Date: 1996/11/21
Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qw67mnfd6ls.fsf@esmeralda.enst.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1750C.5s7@thomsoft.com
>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Thompson <kst@thomsoft.com> writes:
Keith> I presume "racine n i�me" is "nth root" (cube root, fourth
Keith> root, etc.). The formula given above, Sqrt (x) / Sqrt (n), is
Keith> incorrect. The correct formula is x ** 1.0/n (you'll have
Keith> convert n to the appropriate floating-point type first).
I presume you mean x ** (1.0/n) ? (I thought first that it was a
mathematical formula rather than an Ada expression, but your comment
about n being converted to the appropriate floating-point type makes me
think differently :-)
Sam
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Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-13 0:00 Apex problem w/aliased variables paul williams
1996-11-18 0:00 ` problemes mathematiques koniez tayeb
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
[not found] ` <01bbd5f1$b994c530$262a6282@cln49ae>
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu [this message]
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-22 0:00 ` lecomteg
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