Yes, it is. Check "Numeric operators" in the Help. You can also use ^ instead of **.

Vlad

>I'm working on some formulas that use exponents and I know that the following syntax works, but I can't find any reference to it in the VFP documentation.
>
>x=2
>y=3
>z = x**y correctly returns 8
>
>Is this a backward compatible way of doing this? Does anyone have a better way to handle exponents in expressions?
>
>TIA