How Do I Use Exponents In C?

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Hello everyone,
I'm trying to write a program that takes one number to the power of the other. Since c doesn't have a ^ command I am wondering how I can get this to work any help is appreciated thanks.

Posted 7-Apr-15 7:51am

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Richard Deeming 7-Apr-15 14:27pm

How do you do exponentiation in C?[^]

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-07T08:30:00

Solution 1

x^y:

C++

double result = pow(x, y);

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cmath/pow/[^]

Posted 7-Apr-15 8:30am

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