[C++] How to Do Exponentiation and Square Roots (sqrt, pow)

In some programming languages, you can do exponentiation directly with the ^ operator. But while working on a problem, I found out that in C++, you have to use the pow function to do exponentiation. This article introduces two functions: pow, which does exponentiation for you, and sqrt, which takes square roots.

	sqrt	pow
What it does	Square root	Exponentiation
Library	math.h	math.h

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1. Square root:

Format: result=sqrt(the number you want the square root of)

Example: get the square root of 9

#include
#includeusing namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout <

2. Exponentiation:

Format: result=pow(x, y)

Example: get 2 to the power of 4

#include
#include

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout <