Re: Fractional exponents in 4GL

Posted in 1994

Jeffrey Sturm — 17 Nov 1994 00:03:24 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

RJMartn (rjmartn@aol.com) wrote: : I have an application which requires the raising of numbers to fractional : powers : (eg 3 **2.7). 4GL seems to always use the intergized exponent so that 3 : ** 2.7 = 3 ** 2. : Does anyone have a solution for this other than writing a c function? I am : using RDS : version 4.11UC4. Me too. I am using the pow() function to calculate simple interest payments. It would sure be nice to do this all in 4GL. -- Jeff Sturm jsturm@garnet.msen.com