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Saturday 19 November 2016

C program to calculate the power using recursion

#include <stdio.h>

int power(int n1, int n2);

int main()
{
    int base, powerRaised, result;

    printf("Enter base number: ");
    scanf("%d",&base);

    printf("Enter power number(positive integer): ");
    scanf("%d",&powerRaised);

    result = power(base, powerRaised);

    printf("%d^%d = %d", base, powerRaised, result);
    return 0;
}

int power(int base, int powerRaised)
{
    if (powerRaised != 1)
        return (base*power(base, powerRaised-1));
    else
        return 1;
}
Output
Enter base number: 3
Enter power number(positive integer): 5
3^5 = 81

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