On Wednesday, 95/12/27, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to David Noon
about "Cube root" as follows:

JP>   The commentary in \BCOS2\SOURCE\RTL\COMMON\POW.ASM is too long to post
JP>   here, but reading it will reveal that Borland uses two separate
JP>   algorithms for implementing the pow() function (one of which is an
JP>   optimisation for powers of integers), along with a handful of code to
JP>   handle some special cases.

Hi Jonathan,

Does that mean that my shot-in-the-dark was right? I should have
bought a lottery ticket on the strength of that. ... :-)

Regards

Dave


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