<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pow</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Mathematical Functions" HREF="ref.math.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pi" HREF="function.pi.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="rad2deg" HREF="function.rad2deg.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pi.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.rad2deg.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.pow" ></A >pow</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN50825" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)</P >pow -- Exponential expression</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN50828" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >number <B CLASS="methodname" >pow</B > ( number base, number exp)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns <VAR CLASS="parameter" >base</VAR > raised to the power of <VAR CLASS="parameter" >exp</VAR >. If possible, this function will return an <A HREF="language.types.integer.html" ><B CLASS="type" >integer</B ></A >. </P ><P > If the power cannot be computed, a warning will be issued, and <B CLASS="function" >pow()</B > will return <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. Since PHP 4.2.0 <B CLASS="function" >pow()</B > doesn't issue any warning. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Notã: </B > PHP cannot handle negative <VAR CLASS="parameter" >base</VAR >s. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN50850" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. Some examples of <B CLASS="function" >pow()</B ></B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /><br />var_dump</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">pow</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">2</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">8</font><font color="#007700">)); </font><font color="#FF8000">// int(256)<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">pow</font><font color="#007700">(-</font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">20</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// 1<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">pow</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">0</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">0</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// 1<br /><br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">pow</font><font color="#007700">(-</font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">5.5</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// error<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="warning" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="warning" BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Avertisment</B ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" ><P > In PHP 4.0.6 and earlier <B CLASS="function" >pow()</B > always returned a <A HREF="language.types.float.html" ><B CLASS="type" >float</B ></A >, and did not issue warnings. </P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.exp.html" ><B CLASS="function" >exp()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.sqrt.html" ><B CLASS="function" >sqrt()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.bcpow.html" ><B CLASS="function" >bcpow()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.gmp-pow.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gmp_pow()</B ></A >, </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pi.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.rad2deg.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >pi</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.math.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >rad2deg</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >