{"id":21641,"date":"2022-11-14T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-issue-in-finding-power-of-a-number-using-user-defined-functions\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:16:14","slug":"solved-issue-in-finding-power-of-a-number-using-user-defined-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-issue-in-finding-power-of-a-number-using-user-defined-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Issue in finding power of a number using user defined functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-45653612\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"45653612\" data-parentid=\"45653527\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Here is working code:<\/p>\n<pre><code>#include&lt;iostream&gt;\nusing namespace std;\n\nint pow(int, int);\n\nint main()\n{\n    int x,p,ans;\n    cout&lt;&lt;\"Enter a number\";\n    cin&gt;&gt;x;\n    cout&lt;&lt;\"Enter the power of the number\";\n    cin&gt;&gt;p;\n    ans=pow(x, p);\n    cout&lt;&lt;ans;\n    return 0;\n}\n\nint pow(int x, int p)\n{\n    int a=1,i;\n    for(i=0;i&lt;=p;i++)\n    {\n        a=a*x;\n    }\n    return a;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ideone.com\/nuQQLu\">Ideone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You have to pass the local variables into the function instead of defining new ones with the same name. What you are doing should give you warnings about unused variables (<code>x<\/code> and <code>p<\/code> in <code>main<\/code>) and it also invokes undefined behavior in <code>pow<\/code> because of ininitialized reads of the variables defined there.<\/p>\n<p>Also your function was wrong. You were just multiplying 1 with a value a bunch of times, which stays 1 forever.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Issue in finding power of a number using user defined functions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Here is working code: #include&lt;iostream&gt; using namespace std; int pow(int, int); int main() { int x,p,ans; cout&lt;&lt;&#8220;Enter a number&#8221;; cin&gt;&gt;x; cout&lt;&lt;&#8220;Enter the power of the number&#8221;; cin&gt;&gt;p; ans=pow(x, p); cout&lt;&lt;ans; return 0; } int pow(int x, int p) { int a=1,i; for(i=0;i&lt;=p;i++) { a=a*x; } return a; } Ideone You have to pass the &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Issue in finding power of a number using user defined functions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-issue-in-finding-power-of-a-number-using-user-defined-functions\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Issue in finding power of a number using user defined functions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[324],"class_list":["post-21641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-c"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Issue in finding power of a number using user defined functions - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-issue-in-finding-power-of-a-number-using-user-defined-functions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Issue in finding power of a number using user defined functions - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Here is working code: #include&lt;iostream&gt; using namespace std; int pow(int, int); int main() { int x,p,ans; cout&lt;&lt;&quot;Enter a number&quot;; cin&gt;&gt;x; cout&lt;&lt;&quot;Enter the power of the number&quot;; cin&gt;&gt;p; ans=pow(x, p); cout&lt;&lt;ans; return 0; } int pow(int x, int p) { int a=1,i; for(i=0;i&lt;=p;i++) { a=a*x; } return a; } Ideone You have to pass the ... 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