squaring a number

[saziz]

Hi,
Is there a built-in command for squaring a number in Excel?
If I have a number say 5 in a cell A1 to do 5 x 5 how would I do it other than
'=a1 x a1'

Thanks
Aziz

[davesexcel]

=POWER(A1,2)
2 is squared if you want cubed then 3, etc..

[vcard]

How about using exponent:
=a1^2

Regards,
vcard

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> Hi,
> Is there a built-in command for squaring a number in Excel?
> If I have a number say 5 in a cell A1 to do 5 x 5 how would I do it
> other than
> '=a1 x a1'
>
> Thanks
> Aziz
>
>
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[Fred Smith]

There is a power function in Excel, and an exponentiation operator. So your
choices are:

=a1*a1
=a1^2
=Power(a1,2)

Does this help?

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Fred


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> Hi,
> Is there a built-in command for squaring a number in Excel?
> If I have a number say 5 in a cell A1 to do 5 x 5 how would I do it
> other than
> '=a1 x a1'
>
> Thanks
> Aziz
>
>
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[Max]

One way

Use the exponentiation operator "^"

In say, B1: =A1^2

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"saziz" wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Is there a built-in command for squaring a number in Excel?
> If I have a number say 5 in a cell A1 to do 5 x 5 how would I do it
> other than
> '=a1 x a1'
>
> Thanks
> Aziz
>
>
> --
> saziz
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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[saziz]

Thank you all.
Aziz

[Gord Dibben]

Using the caret(^) found on the keyboard you construct a formula...............

=5^2 returns 25 which is 5 squared

=5^3 returns 125 which is 5 cubed

Or you can use the more unwieldy POWER function.

=POWER(5,2) to return 25


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:53:45 -0500, saziz
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Hi,
>Is there a built-in command for squaring a number in Excel?
>If I have a number say 5 in a cell A1 to do 5 x 5 how would I do it
>other than
>'=a1 x a1'
>
>Thanks
>Aziz