Algebra in VB

Hi does anyone know how to program Algebra in VB? For instance I want to calculate "x" times of "a". In other words, "a" cubed "x".

I was thinking in VB should be something like this:

VB Code:

x=x+1
While x=1
yo=(a*a)*x
Wend

But it doesn't seem to work. Anyone? Even not a programmer, please give me ideas:)

I'm not really sure what you want to do...

If you want to find the answer of, say:

y = a*(x*x*x) + b*(x*x) + c

you can do this in VB by:

VB Code:

y = a*(x^3)+b*(x^2)+c

The "^" symbol allows you to use powers. So by typing "2^3" you would get an answer of 8. "2^(-3)" gives 0.125 which is 1/8.

If this isn't quite what you need, try to explain it a bit better - do you have any formulas you need to solve?

Destined.

y = a*(x*x*x) + b*(x*x) + c

...is actually faster than the equivalent...

y = a*(x^3)+b*(x^2)+c

If performance is important to you :)

Function Power_Generator(a as double,x as long) as double
dim lna as double

lna = log(a)

Power_Generator = exp(lna * x)

End Function