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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> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156280" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Sub ExampleLogExp</paragraph> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3125864" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Dim dValue as Double</paragraph> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145172" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">const b1=12.345e12</paragraph> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159254" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">const b2=1.345e34</paragraph> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147287" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">dValue=Exp( Log(b1)+Log(b2) )</paragraph> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161832" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">MsgBox "" & dValue & chr(13) & (b1*b2) ,0,"Multiplication by logarithm"</paragraph> 65*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151112" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">end sub</paragraph> 66*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 67*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 68