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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-1037:
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Github user simonellistonball commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/651
I get the point @mattf-horton and thought about it, but went this way for
familiarity's sake, a lot of the likely authors of stellar statements are
security analysts who will be more familiar with languages like SQL or Excel
functions, or even python than languages which use the ^ operator (off the top
of my head: urgh... just tried python, scala, java, c, c++, javascript, can't
actually think of one that does, though some have **)
> Stellar power function
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> Key: METRON-1037
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-1037
> Project: Metron
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.4.0
> Reporter: Simon Elliston Ball
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> Stellar does not currently have a power function. We should have a function
> of the form POWER(number,power) named for consistency with SQL and Excel.
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