home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Cream of the Crop 3
/
Cream of the Crop 3.iso
/
clipper
/
ks94an.zip
/
TO_POWER.HDR
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-04-25
|
925b
|
37 lines
/******************************************************************************
The Klipper Library, for CA-Clipper 5.x
Copyright (c), 1994, Wallace Information Systems Engineering
FUNCTION:
_To_Power( nNum1, nNum2 ) --> nInteger
PARAMETERS:
nNum1 : Base Number
nNum2 : Exponent (power)
SHORT:
Exponent function (Don't get too excited!).
DESCRIPTION:
_To_Power() will raise nNum1 to the nNum2 power. It will also handle
negative powers.
NOTE:
I wrote this function a LONG time ago BEFORE I remembered that there was a
standard operator for doing it. Oh well...
EXAMPLE:
number = _To_Power(3,0) // number = 1
number = _To_Power(3,1) // number = 3
number = _To_Power(3,2) // number = 9
number = _To_Power(3,4) // number = 27
number = _To_Power(3,-1) // number = 0.33
******************************************************************************/