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Numsgil:
I remember Eric talked about it once, so it wouldn't have surprised me.  Mostly I objected to the idea, because floating point is a whole can of worms with how it works.

Botsareus:
That is why I suggest we skip the floating point bull and do the calculations internally:

“Log(a) / Log(b)" means "depow"
“a ^ (1/b)” means "unpow"

a
b
depow


a
b
unpow

This way the result will be an approximate whole but there will be no need for floating points in the DB code.

And yes my names need improvement: I don't think "unpow" and "depow" sounds professional enough.

P.S.

O yea, and I believe this topic belongs in the suggestions forum now...
Thank You for your time...

Numsgil:
I think a general pow term actually isn't a great idea.  There's very little need to raise things to powers other than 1/3, 1/2, 2, or 3.  So I think a better solution would be to add cbrt, cube, and square commands.  Or something along those lines.

Botsareus:
I have already added unpow and depow to my DB source code...

So If my evolved robot uses it I will have to post the vb code I changed. It's two new subs called DNAunpow and DNAdepow. DNA tokenizing and detokenizing was changed. etc.

bacillus:
Just out of curiosity, what were you planning to use this for?

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