How do you do exponentiation in C?

Question

I tried \"x = y ** e\", but that didn\'t work.

Answer 1

To add to what Evan said: C does not have a built-in operator for exponentiation, because it is not a primitive operation for most CPUs. Thus, it's implemented as a library function.

Also, for computing the function e^x, you can use the exp(double), expf(float), and expl(long double) functions.

Note that you do not want to use the ^ operator, which is the bitwise exclusive OR operator.