This is probably a silly question and I'm just missing something obvious, but is there an object in standard (non-extended) PD to raise something to the Xth power? I know I can just multiply a number by itself to square/cube/etc it, but what if I want to do something like 440^0.99, for example?

[exp] doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for, and [^] didn't work. I wasn't sure what else to try.

If there's no object for this, but someone has a suggestion for a way to build a little patch to do it, that'd be cool as well. I just can't wrap my head far enough around decimal exponential stuff to work it out atm. Thanks!

pow should do the trick (read the docs on it, though, as it behaves strangely for negative mantissas/bases). If it's a complicated expression, expr is also a good object to look into.

If you need to find simple arithmetic operators like this, check out the list of pd objects brought up by getting help on a blank section of the canvas.

[expr pow($f1, $f2)]

feel free to replace either variable with an integer. Worked for me.

--Nestor

yep, and as i found out the other day: [expr~ pow($v1,$f2)] to raise an audio signal to a power.