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{ “title”: “POW”, “language”: “en” }

pow

description

Returns the value of the first argument raised to the power of the second argument.

:::tip The other aliases for this function are power, fpow and dpow. :::

Syntax

DOUBLE pow(DOUBLE a, DOUBLE b) Returns a raised to the b power.

example

mysql> select pow(2,0);
+---------------+
| pow(2.0, 0.0) |
+---------------+
|             1 |
+---------------+
mysql> select pow(2,3);
+---------------+
| pow(2.0, 3.0) |
+---------------+
|             8 |
+---------------+
mysql> select pow(3,2.4);
+--------------------+
| pow(3.0, 2.4)      |
+--------------------+
| 13.966610165238235 |
+--------------------+

keywords

POW, POWER, FPOW, DPOW