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34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Exp Function [Runtime]</title>
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38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
39<lastedited date="2005-04-14T10:35:23">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
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43<section id="exp">
44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150616"><bookmark_value>Exp function</bookmark_value>
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46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150616" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03080201.xhp" name="Exp Function [Runtime]">Exp Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155555" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the base of the natural logarithm (e = 2.718282) raised to a power.</paragraph>
48</section>
49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Exp (Number)</paragraph>
51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph>
52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Double</paragraph>
53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154760" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph>
54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150793" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">
55<emph>Number:</emph> Any numeric expression that specifies the power that you want to raise "e" to (the base of natural logarithms). The power must be for both single-precision numbers less than or equal to 88.02969 and double-precision numbers less than or equal to 709.782712893, since $[officename] Basic returns an Overflow error for numbers exceeding these values.</paragraph>
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58<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156280" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph>
59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Sub ExampleLogExp</paragraph>
60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3125864" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Dim dValue as Double</paragraph>
61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145172" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">const b1=12.345e12</paragraph>
62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159254" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">const b2=1.345e34</paragraph>
63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147287" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">dValue=Exp( Log(b1)+Log(b2) )</paragraph>
64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161832" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">MsgBox "" &amp; dValue &amp; chr(13) &amp; (b1*b2) ,0,"Multiplication by logarithm"</paragraph>
65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151112" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">end sub</paragraph>
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