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Re: Math question


  • Subject: Re: Math question
  • From: Peter Ammon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:19:48 -0400

On Saturday, September 1, 2001, at 07:27 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:

On Saturday, September 1, 2001, at 02:34 PM, email@hidden wrote:

Hello all. i have a question about math in Cocoa. how do i do higher level math? obviously i can do the basics */+-% without problem. but what about doing things like raising a number to a power?

fooSquared = foo^2;


In C, ^ is the bitwise xor operator, not an exponentiation operator. pow is the standard way to raise floating-point values to powers; there's no standard way to do it with integers (though it would be easy enough to write one).

[snip]

-Peter (hoping he didn't just fall for something)


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