From: Emmanuel Touzery Date: 2004-01-26T21:13:51+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-math and "why is ** not abelian?" Peter Hickman wrote: > The problem is that ** is the 'raise to the power of' operator OK, i didn't realise the OP didn't know that (hence my initial reaction)... that post wasn't off-topic after all :O) sorry for the noise. emmanuel