Programming-Idioms

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# 305 Calculate exponentiation of real numbers

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Compute and print a^b, and a^n, where a and b are floating point numbers and n is an integer.

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  print *,a**b, a**n

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writeln('a^b=',power(a,b));
writeln('a^n=',power(a,n));

use feature 'say';

my ($a, $b, $n) = (4.0, 0.5, 3);

say $a**$b;  # prints 2
say $a**$n;  # prints 64

print(a ** b, a ** n)

puts a ** b, a ** n