Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!dino!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!sasg0244 From: sasg0244@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "arithmetic if":: Re: Feature f Message-ID: <227300002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 23:03:08 GMT References: <2422@basser.oz> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:basser.oz:2422:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:227300002:000:502 Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!sasg0244 Aug 8 14:09:00 1989 /* ---------- "Re: "arithmetic if":: Re: Feature f" ---------- */ In article <14181@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: > In article <1429@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1 (bill davidsen) writes: > >Obviously no one wants to have labels, but perhaps something like: > > n = (a-b $ -1 : 0 : 1); > >where there would be a "quadratic operator." > (PS: I think the word for 4-adic is "tetradic" or "quadary", not "quadratic".) the word you're looking for is "quartic"