From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,CTE_8BIT_MISMATCH, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d5d6ef785dd656e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: problemes mathematiques Date: 1996/11/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197808527 sender: tardieu@esmeralda.enst.fr references: <328A5934.1EED@itd.sterling.com> <3290750B.1D8B@worldnet.fr> <01bbd5f1$b994c530$262a6282@cln49ae> to: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson) content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: TELECOM Paris mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Thompson 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 -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org