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Power

   

Declaration:

Function Power (base,expon : Real) : Real;

Description:

Power returns the value of base to the power expon. Base and expon can be of type longint, in which case the result will also be a longint.

The function actually returns Exp(expon*Ln(base))

Errors:

None.

See also:

Exp, Ln

Example
Program Example78;

{ Program to demonstrate the Power function. }

begin
  Writeln (Power(exp(1.0),1.0):8:2); { Should print 2.72 }
end.



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Fri Sep 11 18:27:51 CEST 1998