How do I raised a number to the power of n?

The static method Math.pow(double a, double b) can be used to raise the value specified in the a, the first argument, (the base), to the power of the value specified in b, the second argument, (the exponent). The exponent tells us how many times the base should be multiplied by itself. So, if I have the number of 5, and I want to raise it to the 3rd power, it means that I have to multiply 5 by itself for 3 times.

There are some special cases for the Math.pow() method, as you can read in the Javadocs, here four of them taken from the Javadocs:

If the second argument is positive or negative zero, then the result is 1.0.
If the second argument is 1.0, then the result is the same as the first argument.
If the second argument is NaN, then the result is NaN.
If the first argument is NaN and the second argument is nonzero, then the result is NaN.

You can read more detail about the Math.pow() method on the following Javadocs, Math.pow().

Let’s see a code snippet as an example:

package org.kodejava.math;

public class PowerExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        double cubeRoot = 5d;

        // Get the cubed number of cube root
        // x cubed = x^3 (multiplication three times)
        double cubed = Math.pow(cubeRoot, 3);
        System.out.println(cubeRoot + " cubed is " + cubed);

        // Raised to zero
        System.out.println("Math.pow(2, 0): " + Math.pow(2, 0));

        // Raised to one
        System.out.println("Math.pow(2, 1): " + Math.pow(2, 1));

        // Raised to NaN
        System.out.println("Math.pow(2, Double.NaN): " + Math.pow(2, Double.NaN));

        // NaN raised to the nonzero exponent
        System.out.println("Math.pow(Double.NaN, 2): " + Math.pow(Double.NaN, 2));
    }
}

Our program print the following output:

5.0 cubed is 125.0
Math.pow(2, 0): 1.0
Math.pow(2, 1): 2.0
Math.pow(2, Double.NaN): NaN
Math.pow(Double.NaN, 2): NaN

Author
Recent Posts

Wayan

Founder at Kode Java

A programmer, runner and recreational diver, lives on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Programming in Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate / JPA, MySQL. To support me working on this project, buy me a cup of coffee, every little bit helps. Thank you.

How do I raised a number to the power of n?

1 Comments

Leave a ReplyCancel reply