1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsbasicshared03070500xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">"^" Operator [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03070500.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="potenz"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145315"> 34<bookmark_value>"^" operator (mathematical)</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03070500.xhp">"^" Operator [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Raises a number to a power.</paragraph> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147264" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149656" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Result = Expression ^ Exponent</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151211" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153192" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Result:</emph> Any numerical expression that contains the result of the number raised to a power.</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150448" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Expression:</emph> Numerical value that you want to raise to a power.</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156422" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Exponent:</emph> The value of the power that you want to raise the expression to.</paragraph> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147287" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub Example</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152886" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print ( 12.345 ^ 23 )</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print Exp ( 23 * Log( 12.345 ) ) REM Raises by forming a logarithm</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148618" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> 50</body> 51</helpdocument> 52