Metrohm tiamo 1.0 Manual - Manual (Page 55)

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Potentiation
Syntax
Operand1 ^ Operand2
The operands can either be entered directly or as a Variable and can be
of the type
Text , Number or Date/Time .
Examples
Operand1 Operand2 Result Example Remarks
Operands of the same type:
Number Number Number 1.2 ^ 3 = 1.728 Complex results (of the type:
a+bi, i.e. made up from a real
and an imaginary component)
are shown as an error.
Text Text Text "Metrohm" ^ "AG" = invalid This operation is not permitted.
Time Time Time Time(1900;01;05) ^
Time(1900;01;02) = 196.371
(for
UTC+1)
Time() : see function Time(Date)
Result: number of days calcu-
lated since December 1899,
dependent on the system time
Operands of different types: the operand that does not correspond to the type of result is converted
to the particular result type before the operation.
Number Text Text 1.2 ^ "Metrohm" = invalid This operation is not permitted.
Text Number Text "Metrohm" ^ 1.2 = invalid This operation is not permitted.
Number Time Number 1.2 ^ Time(1900;02;03) =
586.198
(for UTC+1)
-
Time Number Number Time(1999;10;7) ^ 2.5 =
253479847878.04
(for UTC+2)
-
Text Time Text "Metrohm" ^ Time(1999;10;7) =
invalid This operation is not permitted.
Time Text Text Time(1999;10;7) ^ "Metrohm" =
invalid This operation is not permitted.