Why Does Math.pow(x,y) Count as a Double?

Question

I\'m writing a Java program to calculate how much food it will take to get a monster to a certain level in My Singing Monsters. When I run the program, it says, \"cannot con

Answer 1

You'll have to do this:

int levelMeal = (int) (5*(Math.pow(2,level-1)));
                  ^
           this is a cast

As you can see in the documentation, Math.pow() returns a double by design, but if you need an int then an explicit cast must be performed.