Math Functions in OBIEE

There are many science, research and development functions which are not much explored or used in business intelligence. Most of such functions belong to Math Functions. I am listing below all Math Functions.

Math Functions

Abs, Acos, Asin, Atan, Atan2, Ceiling, Cos, Cot, Degrees, Exp, Floor, Log, Log10, Mod, Pi, Power, Radians, Rand, RandFromSeed, Round, Sign, Sin, Sqrt, Tan, Truncate

As I am not working in any scientific or research & development project, so I decided to manually create such functions, to describe math functions. I then thought to randomly select some of trigonometric functions & test result through their graph, so I choose sin, cos and tan. But for trigonometric function I had to further make use of pi (you may use degrees as well).

The functions applied in my case for different functions is as below:

Sin - SIN((RCOUNT(1)-1)*PI()/4)

Cos - COS((RCOUNT(1)-1)*PI()/4)

Tan - TAN((RCOUNT(1)-1)*PI()/4)

Angle in Degree - CEILING(DEGREES((RCOUNT(1)-1)*PI()/4))

Where RCOUNT(1)-1 gives numeric value starting from zero & 1 in RCOUNT(1) is numeric symbolizing first column with distinct data & PI()/4 is used to multiply each count to pi/4 ( quarter of semicircle).

Math Function Test
Test Maths
Calculated Attributes
Angle in Degree	Sine Value	Cos Value	Tan Value
0	0	1	0
45	0.707	0.707	1
90	1	0	6.18986E+14
135	0.707	-0.707	-1
180	0	-1	0
225	-0.707	-0.707	1
270	-1	0	2.16235E+14
315	-0.707	0.707	-1
360	0	1	0
405	0.707	0.707	1
450	1	0	1.20485E+14
495	0.707	-0.707	-1
540	0	-1	0
585	-0.707	-0.707	1
630	-1	0	9.01976E+13
675	-0.707	0.707	-1
720	0	1	0
765	0.707	0.707	1
810	1	0	6.77417E+13
855	0.707	-0.707	-1

So as verifying from the graph & tabular value, it is clear to make use of them, leaving tan pi/2 as an exception of giving a finite value. However still aviating, some more scientific calculus functions, which will make obiee full package to be used in scientific research & development projects.

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