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Thanks to the math
package, Java provides a lot of useful methods for mathematical calculations.
One of the most common operations is exponentiation.
In this post, we'll learn how to use the pow
method of the Math
class to calculate the power of a number in Java.
How to calculate the power of a number in Java
As mentioned before, the Math
class provides a pow
method to calculate the power of a number.
The pow
method takes two parameters:
a
- the baseb
- the exponent
That means that the pow
method calculates the power of a
to the power of b
.
Let's see how to use it to calculate squaring the number 5
:
JAVAdouble result = Math.pow(5, 2);
System.out.println(result);
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The result is given in the double
type.
If you need it as an int
, you can cast it:
JAVAint result = (int) Math.pow(5, 2);
System.out.println(result);
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Keep in mind that the base and exponent can be a double
as well:
JAVAdouble result = Math.pow(5.5, 2);
System.out.println(result);
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Conclusion
In this post, we learned how to use the pow
method of the Math
class to calculate the power of a number in Java.
Simply pass it the base
and the exponent
and it will return the result.
Thanks for reading!
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