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  1. 01-17-2003 #1
    bornforhockey
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    How can implement exponents in C
    im trying to do this line
    total+=2**counter;
    which is 2 to the exponent 'counter' but borland 5.5 compiler spits this error message out at me
    --> Invalid indirection in function
    how can I ix this ?
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    Polymorphic OOP
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    #include<math.h>

    pow( 2.0, counter );

    Or, if counter is an integer, you can just leftshift.

    1 << counter;
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  3. 01-17-2003 #3
    bornforhockey
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    Thank you!

    Thank you very much for replying.
    too bad I found that command after I posted on my professor's resource website :P, anyhow it's nice to know someone cares thx again poly
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