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Re: Power Basic's EXP2()

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From: Mark William Hopkins
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 03:49
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In article <1992Apr9.033935.1991@uwm.edu> gibsonlp@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dean A Herman) writes:
>A representative code fragment:
>
>num1% = EXP2(ABS(num2%))

It's an integer to integer operation, and only integers have integer exponents.
So num1% must be 2 raised to the power ABS(num2%).
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