From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <yann.salmon@prepas.org>
Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104])
	by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B13F7F61E
	for <caml-list@sympa.inria.fr>; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:23:28 +0100 (CET)
Authentication-Results: mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=yann.salmon@prepas.org; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=yann.salmon@prepas.org; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@mo29.mail-out.ovh.net
Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender
  authenticity information available from domain of
  yann.salmon@prepas.org) identity=pra;
  client-ip=178.32.228.29;
  receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr;
  envelope-from="yann.salmon@prepas.org";
  x-sender="yann.salmon@prepas.org";
  x-conformance=sidf_compatible
Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender
  authenticity information available from domain of
  yann.salmon@prepas.org) identity=mailfrom;
  client-ip=178.32.228.29;
  receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr;
  envelope-from="yann.salmon@prepas.org";
  x-sender="yann.salmon@prepas.org";
  x-conformance=sidf_compatible
Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender
  authenticity information available from domain of
  postmaster@mo29.mail-out.ovh.net) identity=helo;
  client-ip=178.32.228.29;
  receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr;
  envelope-from="yann.salmon@prepas.org";
  x-sender="postmaster@mo29.mail-out.ovh.net";
  x-conformance=sidf_compatible
IronPort-PHdr: =?us-ascii?q?9a23=3AJRF39xBJrdzG0NAvLV2jUyQJP3N1i/DPJgcQr6Af?=
 =?us-ascii?q?oPdwSPT6p8bcNUDSrc9gkEXOFd2CrakV16yL6+u5AzVIyK3CmUhKSIZLWR4BhJ?=
 =?us-ascii?q?detC0bK+nBN3fGKuX3ZTcxBsVIWQwt1Xi6NU9IBJS2PAWK8TW94jEIBxrwKxd+?=
 =?us-ascii?q?KPjrFY7OlcS30P2594HObwlSijewZbx/IA+2oAnNucUanJVuJrsswRbVv3VEfP?=
 =?us-ascii?q?hby3l1LlyJhRb84cmw/J9n8ytOvv8q6tBNX6bncakmVLJUFDspPXw7683trhnD?=
 =?us-ascii?q?UBCA5mAAXWUMkxpHGBbK4RfnVZrsqCT6t+592C6HPc3qSL0/RDqv47t3RBLulS?=
 =?us-ascii?q?wIMCI0/W/Vh8F+la5XvB2srAF7z4PUfI2ZMfxzdb7fc9wHX2pMRthfWSxcDI2/?=
 =?us-ascii?q?YYUAAeUOMvpXoYTmu1sDrwGzCRWwCO7hyDJFgGL9060g0+QmFAHLxA4vEMgIsH?=
 =?us-ascii?q?TSsd77Kb0dUeSwzKnPyzXIcvRb2Dfn54jOdBAtu+qMUqh0ccrUzkkvERjIjk2K?=
 =?us-ascii?q?qYP7JzOazP8Nv3Kc7+p6WuKikmgqoBx/rDiow8cjkIjJhoQNx1HE7yp5xoA1Jc?=
 =?us-ascii?q?aiR05/ZN6kF51QuzuUN4tsRM4pXmJmuD4ix7Ebu5O2fzIGxZo5yxLFdfCLbYuF?=
 =?us-ascii?q?7gj9WOuVOTt0mW5pdbalixqv9UWs1vfwW8mu3FpUoCdIlt/BvW0X2RPJ8MiIUP?=
 =?us-ascii?q?5981+h2TmR0wDT7flJIUUzlabFL5Mt2LswmYASsUTHByP2n1j2jLOMekUj5Oio?=
 =?us-ascii?q?6/7rYrP4qZ+AL4N0iwf+PboymsGnHOg1MAsDU3KV9OiizrHv41P1TbZQgvEolq?=
 =?us-ascii?q?TVqJXaKt4apq69DQ9VyIEj6xOnAjamytsYm38HIEheeB2di4jpPlbOIPbjAPen?=
 =?us-ascii?q?mVSjji9ryOrdPrH7BZXNNHfDnK/7fblh805c1BYzzddH6p1IEL4BJfbzVlb1tN?=
 =?us-ascii?q?zZFR85Lxe5w/3nCdV4zoMRQ3iDAq6fMKPIsF+H/PgjI+eWZNxdhDGoIPEg47vq?=
 =?us-ascii?q?jGQlsV4bZ6igm5UNO16iGfEzEkyfZzLXi9MEFmFC6hs3Suqsk1SGVDlVT26oUr?=
 =?us-ascii?q?o1/Xc8Eo3wXtSLfZyknLHUhHTzJZZRfG0TVwiB?=
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A0CTAgDODYdYfR3kILJeHRgHDBgHgn0BA?=
 =?us-ascii?q?QEBAX8DJ4Qym22XWiaGCoIAQxQBAQEBAQEBAQEBARIBAQsUCkyCMwoHgk+BCwI?=
 =?us-ascii?q?mAmwIAQGJGp0vkAGCJYsNgQuFQIIFCId3ggAMLoJfBYkJkkSBTDCEZosKgV8Bg?=
 =?us-ascii?q?XCGYIY+knc2gTkTKoZ8iEcBAQE?=
X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A0CTAgDODYdYfR3kILJeHRgHDBgHgn0BAQEBAX8DJ4Qym22?=
 =?us-ascii?q?XWiaGCoIAQxQBAQEBAQEBAQEBARIBAQsUCkyCMwoHgk+BCwImAmwIAQGJGp0vk?=
 =?us-ascii?q?AGCJYsNgQuFQIIFCId3ggAMLoJfBYkJkkSBTDCEZosKgV8BgXCGYIY+knc2gTk?=
 =?us-ascii?q?TKoZ8iEcBAQE?=
X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,277,1477954800"; 
   d="scan'208";a="210614237"
Received: from mo29.mail-out.ovh.net ([178.32.228.29])
  by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Jan 2017 09:23:27 +0100
Received: from he22.mail.ovh.net (he22.mail.ovh.net [46.105.67.157])
	by mo29.mail-out.ovh.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3451F4B
	for <caml-list@inria.fr>; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:23:26 +0100 (CET)
Received: from [192.168.1.68] (unknown [109.190.5.239])
	by he22.mail.ovh.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 87973205A7
	for <caml-list@inria.fr>; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:23:31 +0100 (CET)
To: caml-list@inria.fr
From: Yann Salmon <yann.salmon@prepas.org>
Message-ID: <446a88a3-1e93-91a1-0111-f71a8aa24ec2@prepas.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:23:25 +0100
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/45.5.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 1080300962077658911
X-VR-SPAMSTATE: OK
X-VR-SPAMSCORE: 50
X-VR-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeelgedrhedtgdduvdehucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuqfggjfdpvefjgfevmfevgfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucgoteefjeefqddtgeculdehtddm
Subject: [Caml-list] Integer exponentiation and **

Hello,

I am wondering why OCaml does not have an integer exponentiation
operator and why the floating point exponentiation operator is ( ** )
and not ( **. ).

Any ideas ?

-- 
Cordialement,
Yann Salmon

Informatique
MPSI, PCSI, MP*, PC*
Descartes - Tours

<http://pro.yannsalmon.fr/>