>Yes, it is. Check "Numeric operators" in the Help. You can also use ^ instead of **.
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>Vlad
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>>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.
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>>x=2
>>y=3
>>z = x**y correctly returns 8
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>>Is this a backward compatible way of doing this? Does anyone have a better way to handle exponents in expressions?
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>>TIA
Thank you Paul. I did a search on ** and ^ before posting, and neither returned any help topic. Just needed a little nudge I guess.<s>