Can Accorn calculate exponents?

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Can Accorn calculate exponents?

Post by GDawson »

Good Morning,
we are laying out guitar fingerboards and need to use an exponent to calculate the proper fret spacing, I want to use the same program with a few variables to change the scale length and number of frets with out having to draw it each time in fusion.
Thanks!


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Re: Can Accorn calculate exponents?

Post by tblough »

"^" does exponentiation - see section 11.2.14 in the operator's manual.
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Re: Can Accorn calculate exponents?

Post by centroid467 »

According to the Mill Manual, Chapter 11.2.14 (https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... f#page=197), you can use the caret operator ^ to write out exponential expressions.

That would take the form of

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 a ^ b
where a is taken to the power of b.


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