<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************** * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ***********************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03070500xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">"^" Operator [Runtime]</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03070500.xhp</filename> </topic> </meta> <body> <section id="potenz"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145315"><bookmark_value>"^" operator (mathematical)</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03070500.xhp">"^" Operator [Runtime]</link></paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Raises a number to a power.</paragraph> </section> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147264" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149656" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Result = Expression ^ Exponent</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151211" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153192" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> <emph>Result:</emph> Any numerical expression that contains the result of the number raised to a power.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150448" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> <emph>Expression:</emph> Numerical value that you want to raise to a power.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156422" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> <emph>Exponent:</emph> The value of the power that you want to raise the expression to.</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147287" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Sub Example</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152886" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Print ( 12.345 ^ 23 )</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Print Exp ( 23 * Log( 12.345 ) ) REM Raises by forming a logarithm</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148618" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">End Sub</paragraph> </body> </helpdocument>