POWER: Raising a Value to a Power

How to:

The POWER function returns the value calculated by raising the first argument to the power specified by the second argument.


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Syntax: How to Return a Value Raised to a Power
POWER(arg1, arg2)

where:

arg1

Numeric

Is the value to be raised to the power specified by arg2.

arg2

Numeric

Is the value of the power to which to raise arg1.



Example: Returning a Value Raised to a Power

POWER returns the value calculated by raising the first argument to the value specified by the second argument. This example,

EXP(2,4)

returns 16.000.


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