Langdon Algar

Macca,
Hi there, I am fairly new to Java as well, a way to do your
problem while using "int"s provided by the user and the "Math.pow" method
which takes "double"s would be to convert the ints to doubles and then send
them to the Math.pow method. As in the following:
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public class Powers {
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (args.length <2) {
System.out.println("enter two numbers on the command line");
} else {
int number1 = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
int power1 = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
int answer2;
double answer1;
double number2 = (double) number1;
double power2 = (double) power1;
answer1 = Math.pow(number2, power2);
answer2 = (int) answer1;

System.out.println(number1 + " to the " + power1 + " power is: " + answer2);
}
}
}
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Hope this helps,
Langdon