Calculate floating-point powers

seems bc and dc can't do it.

>>31
Since I also said POSIX = balls, I have no idea why you think this would bother me. Also this is 2009; I think you have a bitmap display.

emacs is as bad as vim.
Oh, no. Emacs has none of Vim's problems.

>>33
Your only exposure to X may be nil, but the server runs on your local machine. Because running a graphics server on a headless machine makes no goddamn sense. X clients don't need a server installed locally, and wouldn't know what to do with it if they had it.

>>34
I wasn't aware that blatant misinformation qualified as a CRUSHING REPLY. Or is that just your way of saying, "I don't understand X either."?

>>37
In fact, some of us have 24-bit (bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit) bitmap displays.