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Java

Posted by Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva
10,644 Points

How to output a number raised to the power in Java

Hello, I'm finishing up this application I am writing that displaced the cubic feet of boxes. However it's just printing 355ft. I need it to print 355ft^3 BUT NOT THE "^" SYMBOL. The three needs to be smaller too, since it's cubic feet. Any ideas?

Thanks,

3 Answers

Michael Davis
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Michael Davis
Courses Plus Student 12,508 Points
Michael Davis
Michael Davis
Courses Plus Student 12,508 Points

It sounds like, to me, that you are trying to get the 3, representing "cubed", to show as superscript. Displaying text in the superscript or subscript is a formatting task, and as such would require some sort of text manipulation. If your result is going to be displayed in HTML, you can use the <sup></sup> tag to cause it to display in the superscript style.

As an alternative, you can have the text display as 355 cu-ft, or if you really want the superscript 3, use the unicode representation '\u00B3'. If you open your browser's web console and type '\u00B3', including the quotes, you'll get the superscript 3.

Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points
Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points 
System.out.println(Math.pow(3, 2)); // This is 3 to the power of 2 => 9
Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva
10,644 Points

Sorry I mean I don't need the results. It's how to display it such as 2^ but instead of the '^' sign it it would be a number.

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

I'm not 100% sure how, but at least in Python you can use the double asterisk, like this: **

Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva
10,644 Points

I tried it, it didn't work...but thanks anyways for trying to help!

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

No problem :P

Srry.