rshah@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Ravindra S Shah) (07/13/89)
I am currently analyzing data on our VAM/VMS using 1032 DBMS. The specific problem I have encountered is producing the geometric mean for a field in a group of records. This sounds really weird (especially since it is a breeze with my dBase III+) but 1032 does the natural log function, but doesn't have an expotential function! I have tried many ways to get a half decent result, but to no avail. To make matters worse, 1032 deosn't have the ability to perform powers (for ex. to get 3^4, a program would have a loop to multiply three times itself four times). This would be nice if the numbers I am using were integers, but they happend to be returned from the natural log function (decimals and negatives). Has anybody had to deal with a similar problem before? Any suggestions helpful. Thanks. <Ravi Shah> rshah@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu University of Pittsburgh