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<span class="pageSubtitle">Integer base raised to integer exponent</span>
<p class="warn"><b>Note: </b>Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented
methods. There is currently no direct OO equivalent for the $IxpI function.</p>

The <var>$IxpI</var> function returns the value of
its first argument (rounded to the nearest integral
value) raised to the power of its second argument (rounded to the nearest
integral value).

==Syntax==
<p class="syntax"><span class="term">%num</span><span class="literal"> = $IxpI(</span><span class="term">x</span>, <span class="term">y</span><span class="literal">)</span>  </p>

==Usage notes==
<ul>
<li>If <var class="term">x</var> equals 0, and <var class="term">y</var> is less
than or equal to 0, an error message is printed and a 0 is returned.
<li>Results from $ixpr which would have an exponent value greater than +74 ( when expressed in standard form ) would cause an arithmetic overflow error, and would return the value 0.
</ul>

==Examples==
<p class="code">$ixpi(8,2) = 8<sup>2</sup> = 64

$ixpi(2.4,.5) = $ixpi(2,1) = 2
</p>

[[Category: Mathematical $functions]]