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pow

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

pow — Expression exponentielle

Description

number pow ( number $base , number $exp )

Retourne base élevé à la puissance exp .

Avertissement

En PHP 4.0.6 et plus ancien, pow() retournait toujours un nombre à virgule flottante (float), et n'affichait pas d'alerte.

Liste de paramètres

base

La base à utiliser

exp

L'exponentielle

Valeurs de retour

base élevé à la puissance exp . Si le résultat peut être représenté sous la forme d'un entier, il sera retourné sous la forme d'un entier, sinon, il sera retourné sous la forme d'un nombre à virgule flottante. Si la puissance ne peut être calculée, FALSE sera retourné.

Historique

Version Description
Depuis la version 4.0.6 La fonction retourne désormais un entier si possible ; avant cette version, cette fonction retournait toujours un nombre à virgule flottante. Pour les anciennes versions, vous pouviez obtenir un résultat erroné pour les nombres complexes.
Depuis la version 4.2.0 PHP arrête d'émettre une alerte si la valeur ne peut pas être calculée. Il retourne maintenant uniquement FALSE.

Exemples

Exemple #1 Exemple avec pow()

<?php

var_dump
(pow(28)); // int(256)
echo pow(-120); // 1
echo pow(00); // 1

echo pow(-15.5); // PHP >4.0.6  NAN
echo pow(-15.5); // PHP <=4.0.6 1.#IND
?>



rad2deg> <pi
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Matt Dudley
16-Jul-2008 03:14
Calculate wind chill based on the National Weather Service formula.

$temp = 25;
$wind_speed_mph = 6;

$wind_chill = 35.74+(.6215*$temp_f)-(35.75*(pow($wind_speed_mph, 0.16)))+(.4275*$temp_f*(pow($wind_speed_mph, 0.16)));

Value only valid when the temp is 45 or below.... I used this with a weather script I wrote that reads an xml file. They don't provide wind chill.
Docey
04-May-2007 10:33
no integer breaking here, pow just silently switches to using floats instead of integers.

pow(2, 31) = integer value
pow(2, 32) = float value.

the manual says the limit for floats is machine dependent so i did a little loop to see how far it will go before becomming infinit. the result is 1023.

pow(2, 1023) = float
pow(2, 1024) = ifinit.

tested on php 4.4.1 under windows2000 on an AMD AthlonXP 2800+.
gilthansREMOVEME at gmail dot com
15-Dec-2006 07:50
Note that pow(0, 0) equals to 1 on PHP 4 (only tested it there), although mathematically this is undefined.
moikboy (nospam) moikboy (nospam) hu
10-May-2006 01:27
Here is a function for calculating the $k-th root of $a :

<?php
function root($a,$k){return(($a<0&&$k%2>0)?-1:1)*pow(abs($a),1/$k);};
?>
louis [at] mulliemedia.com
31-Dec-2004 08:02
Here's a pow() function that allows negative bases :
<?php
function npow($base, $exp)
{
   
$result = pow(abs($base), $exp);
    if (
$exp % 2 !== 0) {
       
$result = - ($result);
    }
    return
$result;
}
?>
janklopper .AT. gmail dot.com
10-Nov-2004 06:26
since pow doesn't support decimal powers, you can use a different sollution,

thanks to dOt for doing the math!

a^b = e^(b log a)
which is no the 10log but the e-log (aka "ln")

so instead of: pow( $a , 0.6 ) use something like: exp( 0.6 * log($a) )
matthew underscore kay at ml1 dot net
17-Mar-2004 11:03
As of PHP5beta4, pow() with negative bases appears to work correctly and without errors (from a few cursory tests):

pow(-3, 3) = -27
pow(-3, 2) = 9
pow(-5, -1) = -0.2
bishop
17-Jul-2003 08:01
A couple of points on pow():
1. One of the official examples of pow(2,8) is not pragmatic; use 1 << 8 as it's substantially faster
2. When passing variables to pow(), cast them otherwise you might get warnings on some versions of PHP
3. All the rules of algebra apply: b**(-e) is 1/(b**e), b**(p/q) is the qth root of b**p

So, e.g., sqrt($x) === pow($x, .5); but sqrt() is faster.

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