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pow

Calculate xy.

Compatibility:

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32


Prototype:
#include <math.h>

double pow(double x, double y);
float powf(float, float x);
long double powl(long double, long double x);
Parameters:

Parameters for this function are:

x  
float, double or long double  
value to be computed  

Return:

pow() returns xy. The pow() function may assign EDOM to errno if x is 0.0 and y is less than or equal to zero or if x is less than zero and y is not an integer. See "Floating point error testing.," for information on newer error testing procedures.

See Also:

"Inlined Intrinsics Option"

"sqrt"

"Example usage of error detection,"

pow() example:
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	double x;

	printf("Powers of 2:\n");
	for (x = 1.0; x <= 10.0; x += 1.0)
		printf("2 to the %4.0f is %4.0f.\n", x, pow(2, x));

	return 0;
}

Output:
Powers of 2:
2 to the    1 is    2.
2 to the    2 is    4.
2 to the    3 is    8.
2 to the    4 is   16.
2 to the    5 is   32.
2 to the    6 is   64.
2 to the    7 is  128.
2 to the    8 is  256.
2 to the    9 is  512.
2 to the   10 is 1024.


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