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Re: forms 6i and PL/SQL : using the power(m,n) function with non-integer values ?

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:23:23 +0100
Message-ID: <3BD6F90B.500C@yahoo.com>


hydro.invest wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> does anyone have a work-around for this problem ? :
> within 'forms developper 2000',
> i want to get the result of : x power y, with y as a non integer, say 1.52.
> the 'power' function seems to fail..
>
> Thanks for any suggestion :)
>
> Laurent RAVIGNE

You could use the rdbms based version (just wrap a db plsql routine around power)

hth
connor

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