Forgive me if this is already on here somewhere but I couldn't find it.
SO, I am doing a simple calculation.
double radius = 2.50; //double pi = Math.PI; //double areaOfCircle; double radSquared = radius * radius; double radiusSquared = Math.Pow(radius, radius); //This, to me, give the wrong answer..? //areaOfCircle = Math.PI * radSquared; //This one give the correct calculation Why, if I just do radius * radius do I get an accurate calculation, but when I use the Math.Pow method, I get a completely different answer...?
Surely it is doing the exact same calculation? What am I missing?
1 Answer
Read the documentation.
You are raising radius to the power of radius, not radius to the power of 2.
