> How to write a device funciton without using a '/' operator
>
> sub device_now($a, $b){
> my ($a, $b)=@;
>
> <don't use $result=$a/$b; >
>
> return $result;
>
> }
> &device_now(6,3);
That's "divide", not "device".
Not sure it's the solution that the professor had in mind, but you
can use exponentiation (in Perl written as **,
5**2=25,5**3=125,...).
It's enough to remember that
x ** -1 = 1 / x
and the rest is trivial.
Another option would be to use a numerical solution. Guess the
result, see whether it's too big or too small, change the guess
accordingly, check again and continue like this until the error is
small enough.
Jenda
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