How does one raise an integer to a power?

[Steve Kershaw]

This is stupid!!!!

I have looked everywhere (in books, google, online....) to find out how
to raise a number to a power and I can't find it!!!

For example:

given x = 10
y = x ^ 2;
y would then be 100 (10 squared is 100).

Why can't I find such a basic operation!?

Steve

 

[Steve Kershaw]

Sorry,

I need this in C#

Steve

 

[Manohar Kamath]

Math.Pow(x, y)

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

It might be useful to point out that the x stands for the number
to be raised and that the y stands for the power to which the x is raised.

i.e., the return value of Math.Pow(x, y) is the number x raised to the power y.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.math.pow.aspx



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[Guest]

Unlike VB, C# has no exponentiation operator built into the language. You
have to use the Math class (Math.Pow).
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[clintonG]

Which is where it should be.

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[Guest]

Using that same argument you could say that we should also have Logical.Or
instead of || and Math.Multiply instead of *. It's debatable what should be
built in operators and what shouldn't.
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