<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>pow</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="csound.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Canonical Csound Reference Manual" /> <link rel="up" href="OpcodesTop.html" title="Orchestra Opcodes and Operators" /> <link rel="prev" href="poscil3.html" title="poscil3" /> <link rel="next" href="powershape.html" title="powershape" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">pow</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="poscil3.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Orchestra Opcodes and Operators</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="powershape.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry" title="pow"> <a id="pow"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexPow" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">pow</span> </h2> <p>pow — Computes one argument to the power of another argument. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Description"> <a id="id3111162"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> Computes <span class="emphasis"><em>xarg</em></span> to the power of <span class="emphasis"><em>kpow</em></span> (or <span class="emphasis"><em>ipow</em></span>) and scales the result by <span class="emphasis"><em>inorm</em></span>. </p> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Syntax"> <a id="id3111388"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis">ares <span class="command"><strong>pow</strong></span> aarg, kpow [, inorm]</pre> <pre class="synopsis">ires <span class="command"><strong>pow</strong></span> iarg, ipow [, inorm]</pre> <pre class="synopsis">kres <span class="command"><strong>pow</strong></span> karg, kpow [, inorm]</pre> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Initialization"> <a id="id3112098"></a> <h2>Initialization</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>inorm</em></span> (optional, default=1) -- The number to divide the result (default to 1). This is especially useful if you are doing powers of a- or k- signals where samples out of range are extremely common! </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Performance"> <a id="id3112118"></a> <h2>Performance</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>aarg</em></span>, <span class="emphasis"><em>iarg</em></span>, <span class="emphasis"><em>karg</em></span> -- the base. </p> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>ipow</em></span>, <span class="emphasis"><em>kpow</em></span> -- the exponent. </p> <div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <table border="0" summary="Note"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"> <img alt="[Note]" src="images/note.png" /> </td> <th align="left">Note</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p> Use <span class="emphasis"><em>^</em></span> with caution in arithmetical statements, as the precedence may not be correct. New in Csound version 3.493. </p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Examples"> <a id="id3112164"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> Here is an example of the pow opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/pow.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">pow.csd</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="id3112181"></a> <p class="title"> <b>Example 450. Example of the pow opcode.</b> </p> <div class="example-contents"> <p>See the sections <a class="link" href="UsingRealTime.html" title="Real-Time Audio"><em class="citetitle">Real-time Audio</em></a> and <a class="link" href="CommandFlags.html" title="Csound command line"><em class="citetitle">Command Line Flags</em></a> for more information on using command line flags.</p> <pre class="programlisting"> <span class="csdtag"><CsoundSynthesizer></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsOptions></span> <span class="comment">; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform</span> <span class="comment">; Audio out Audio in</span> -odac -iadc <span class="comment">;;;RT audio I/O</span> <span class="comment">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span> <span class="comment">; -o pow.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsOptions></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsInstruments></span> <span class="comment">; Initialize the global variables.</span> <span class="ohdr">sr</span> <span class="op">=</span> 44100 <span class="ohdr">kr</span> <span class="op">=</span> 4410 <span class="ohdr">ksmps</span> <span class="op">=</span> 10 <span class="ohdr">nchnls</span> <span class="op">=</span> 1 <span class="comment">; Instrument #1.</span> <span class="oblock">instr</span> 1 <span class="comment">; This could also be expressed as: i1 = 2 ^ 12</span> i1 <span class="opc">pow</span> 2, 12 <span class="opc">print</span> i1 <span class="oblock">endin</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsScore></span> <span class="comment">; Play Instrument #1 for one second.</span> <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 0 1 <span class="stamnt">e</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsScore></span> <span class="csdtag"></CsoundSynthesizer></span> </pre> </div> </div> <p><br class="example-break" /> Its output should include a line like this: </p> <pre class="screen"> instr 1: i1 = 4096.000</pre> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Credits"> <a id="id3112226"></a> <h2>Credits</h2> <p> </p> <table border="0" summary="Simple list" class="simplelist"> <tr> <td>Author: Paris Smaragdis</td> </tr> <tr> <td>MIT, Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1995</td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>Example written by Kevin Conder.</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="poscil3.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="OpcodesTop.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="powershape.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">poscil3 </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> powershape</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>