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POWER()

Description

POWER(X, Y) returns the value of X raised to the power of Y.

Syntax

> POWER(X, Y)

Arguments

Arguments Description
X Required. Any numeric data type supported now.
Y Required. Any numeric data type supported now.

Examples

drop table if exists t1;
create table t1(a int,b int);
insert into t1 values(5,-2),(10,3),(100,0),(4,3),(6,-3);

mysql> select power(a,b) from t1;
+----------------------+
| power(a, b)          |
+----------------------+
|                 0.04 |
|                 1000 |
|                    1 |
|                   64 |
| 0.004629629629629629 |
+----------------------+
5 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> select power(a,2) as a1, power(b,2) as b1 from t1 where power(a,2) > power(b,2) order by a1 asc;
+-------+------+
| a1    | b1   |
+-------+------+
|    16 |    9 |
|    25 |    4 |
|    36 |    9 |
|   100 |    9 |
| 10000 |    0 |
+-------+------+
5 rows in set (0.01 sec)