are you looking for the ** operator?
perldoc perlop
Exponentiation
Binary "**" is the exponentiation operator. It binds even
more tightly than unary minus, so -2**4 is -(2**4), not
(-2)**4. (This is implemented using C's pow(3) function,
which actually works on doubles internally.)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prachi Shroff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: power of
>
>
> Hi!
>
> This may sound as a very stupid question, but here it comes
> anyways. Has
> anybody come across a function that wold calculate the power
> of a number,
> like the pow function in C. Simply, x to the power of y.
> I know of 2 options, one an inefficient iterative
> multiplication, but I have
> real numbers as power, so that is ruled out. Another is to do
> something like
> this: exp(y*log x), but is an approximation. So, please do
> let me know if
> there is any other more accurate way of doing it.
>
> Thanks,
> Prachi.
>
>
>
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