On 9/19/11 2:35 PM, Stephane CHAZELAS wrote: > FYI, ksh93 uses pow(3). So does zsh, but only in floating point > mode. > > Probably better and more efficient than reinventing the wheel.
Maybe, but since bash doesn't use floating point arithmetic, probably not. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/