[Tutor] factorial
Jeff Shannon
jeff@ccvcorp.com
Mon May 12 14:16:02 2003
cino hilliard wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Jeff,
>
> I was taking the easyway out and thus doing more work on the import
> function.
>
> The power ^ idea comes from my use of basic, Pari etc. We were able to
> do it in BCX which the
> moderator held out for a long time but clever users perfected the
> code. Then,I guess asking that
> Fortran start using ^ vs ** would be pretty much uh? Thanks for you
> advice.
I think that it's really C's fault. C started using ^ as a bitwise XOR
operator, and Python borrowed that usage from there.
Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International