Need Help With Math Coding

[LearninPHP]

Hi,

I am fairly new to the world of PHP and have been assigned a problem for class that I am really struggling with. It is a math equation that takes two inputs from a user (by creating a sticky) and places the answer in a third txt box. The instructions are as follows:

• the number of positive integers, from 1 to N, they want to sum

• the power that each term should be raised to before summing the computation for finding the power of each term should be done in a separate function that

• passes the base

• passes the power

• returns the result

So if the user enters 3 in Box 1 & 3 in Box 2, I would need to calculate

1³
2³
3³

The displayed result in Box 3 would be 36, or the sum of 1+8+27)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

NPT

[alexu_]

here's your function:

function calculate($base,$power)
{
   $sum=0;
   for ($i=1; $i<=$base; $i++)
      $sum+=pow($i,$power);
   return $sum;
}

[LearninPHP]

Thank you. I will be working on this later today and will follow up with any other issues.

Very much appreciated!