From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:15:09 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
Message-ID: <473E4D86.598F4210@null.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <473CA84C.36276EF9@null.net>,
	<88FF26A2-990F-4481-B3C7-153565E069BF@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Problems with pcc
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 01211d76-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> double cbrt(double x) { return pow(x, 1.0 / 3.0); }

Yeah, that's why I never felt the need to build it into
the language.

> I'm trying to find an intuitive implementation of gamma().

?  Gamma isn't very intuitive.  It is essentially the
factorial function "!" (with argument offset by 1) for
the counting numbers, so you can think of the real part
as the "natural" interpolating function for factorial.