Thanks for all the responses guys! This is the one that struck me as
best...why do it dynamically when all I need is the power of 3!
thanks!
...first Cold Fusion...then the World!
jon
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Subject: RE: Power of 3
> It's not very elegant, but the most efficient method (assuming it's always
3
> that you care about) might be to put all the values you care about into a
> list in the application or request scope and do a listfind. You can't
have
> that many entries before you hit the CF biggest-number limit.
>
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> From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:36 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Power of 3
>
>
> Anyone have an idea on how to check to see if a value is a power of 3?
>
> I have a loop that needs to fire an event at every power of three that it
> hits and I am having problems getting my brain around how I need to do
this.
> My first thoughts are to have a loopcounter and each time around the
counter
> is incremented check and see if the counter value is the Next power of
> three.
> The end effect is that the if statement is triggered the following
> intervals: 3,9,27,81...
>
> jon
>
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