What is the command to do a power of a value

C=L(1+i/100)power of n

i am stuck here
for example square root is Math.sqrt(x)
How do i do Power of a value?

xvictoryeohx@gmail.com wrote:
> C=L(1+i/100)power of n

> i am stuck here
> for example square root is Math.sqrt(x)
> How do i do Power of a value?

Math.pow().

-- glen

On Monday, July 30, 2012 12:31:35 PM UTC+8, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> xvictoryeohx@gmail.com wrote:
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> > C=L(1+i/100)power of n
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> > i am stuck here
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> > for example square root is Math.sqrt(x)
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> > How do i do Power of a value?
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> Math.pow().
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> -- glen

Thanks!

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:28:11 -0700 (PDT), xvictoryeohx@gmail.com
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>C=L(1+i/100)power of n
>
>i am stuck here
>for example square root is Math.sqrt(x)
>How do i do Power of a value?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/power.html
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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xvictoryeohx@gmail.com wrote:
> C=L(1+i/100)power of n
>
> i am stuck here
> for example square root is Math.sqrt(x)
> How do i do Power of a value?

I have a dim memory from Numerical Analysis
that the "obvious" way to evaluate that is
inaccurate for small "i" and large "n".

BugBear