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Re: What is the command to do a power of a value

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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

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What is the command to do a power of a value xvictoryeohx@gmail.com - 2012-07-29 21:28 -0700
  Re: What is the command to do a power of a value glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-07-30 04:31 +0000
    Re: What is the command to do a power of a value xvictoryeohx@gmail.com - 2012-07-29 21:57 -0700
  Re: What is the command to do a power of a value Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-30 02:22 -0700
    Re: What is the command to do a power of a value Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-07-30 13:22 +0000
      Re: What is the command to do a power of a value Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-07-30 07:48 -0700
        Re: What is the command to do a power of a value Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-07-30 23:06 +0000
  Re: What is the command to do a power of a value bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2012-07-30 10:44 +0100

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