Documented undocumented functions (was Re: Undocumented math Functions)
Posted in 1994
In article <30vka5INNa9m@ringer.syd.dwt.CSIRO.AU> peter@prospect.anprod.csiro.au (Peter Wiley - Poultry) writes: >So far, I have found: >sine, cos, tan, log10. Haven't found ln or any antilog function. Unfortunately. "sin", not "sine". We're informal here. [-: Natural log is logn(). As for the antilogs, isn't there a formulaic way to get the same effects using the log functions? (It's been too long since I used any calculus; those brain cells have been scarfed for other uses, like Monty Python lines.) >All these are only available by using a SELECT statement. Well, only in an SQL statement (not necessarily just "SELECT"). These are documented in the Informix Guide to SQL - Syntax (version 6.0). Function Expressions start on page 1-443. -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland Watch for my upcoming book, _Dealy_Plaza_dbspaces:_The_JFK-OnLine_Conspiracy_. (Soon to be a major motion picture)