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SAP NEWS-30-COMPUTE documentation, setup help and example usage
Arithmetic Expressions in Release 3.0
1 New operation: Exponentiation
2 New arithmetic functions
ABAP_MODIFICATION_1 Exponentiation
The COMPUTE statement now supports the operator " ** ". Previously, the exponential operation " X ** Y
" was awkward to express. You either had to use repeated multiplication (if Y was an integer) or the expression
ABAP_MODIFICATION_2 New arithmetic functions
Most common arithmetic functions are now supported. The functions
ABS , SIGN , CEIL , FLOOR , TRUNC , and
FRAC are suitable for all numeric types ( I , P , and
). The functions SIN and COS , intended mainly for floating point operands, were already available, as well as EXP , LOG and SQRT . The following have now been added:
the trigonometry functions TAN , ACOS , ASIN , and ATAN
the hyperbola functions COSH , SINH , and TANH
the logarithm function LOG10
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