Focus help needed abt numeric operator '**'

amitava · Active User Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 186 Location: India

Hi All,
Currently I am working in a FOCUS migration project. Here in a FOCUS program, I have found a statement like the following -
test/I2 = 2;
Var2 = Var1 ** test;
- My question is what this numeric operator - '**' stands for? While taking the output of this FOCUS program we are getting like following -

shrivatsa · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:50 pm

In FOCUS it Stands as other programs I mean to say is its a power operator.
But I am wondering how you are getting the output like that. That is also till 7 you got everytime 1 less than the squared one and at 8 you got the 64.
Strange!!!!

Thanks
Shri

raghunathns · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:36 am

its an exponentiation.

it works with double pression. so remove i2 and try

var1 = 3;
test = 2;
var2 = var1 ** test;

raghunathns · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:58 am

use this code to convert var2

VAR3/A2 = FTOA(VAR2,'(F2)', VAR3);

example
16.00 to 16
.