Date:         Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:47:13 -0400
Reply-To:     Venky Chakravarthy <swovcc@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Venky Chakravarthy <swovcc@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Mathematical function for power of??
Comments: To: Sa Polo <solouga5@REDIFFMAIL.COM>

It is worthwhile to have this page bookmarked for future reference:

http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/getDoc/en/lrcon.hlp/a000780367.htm

For your immediate question. The power of x raised to n is represented by:

x**n

So in your case

  y = val**po ;

Hope this helps.

Venky Chakravarthy

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:11:49 -0000, sa polo <solouga5@REDIFFMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>
Hi,

I have a dataset with:

data x;
val=24 ;po=4;
val=24 ;po=2;
val=24 ;po=5;
val=24 ;po=1;
val=24 ;po=2;
run;

I need to calculate the value of a variable y
based on val and po(which is a power of variable).
Is there a mathematical function to
do this

Desired result:

y=24*24*24*24;
y=24*24;
y=24*24*24*24*24;
y=24;
y=24*24

Thanks,
SP