I know this is probably a very simple question but how would I do something like
n2 in a programming language?
Is it n * n? Or is there another way?
I know this is probably a very simple question but how would I do
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I know this is probably a very simple question but how would I do something like
n2 in a programming language?
Is it n * n? Or is there another way?
n * nis the easiest way.For languages that support the exponentiation operator (
**in this example), you can also don ** 2Otherwise you could use a Math library to call a function such as
pow(n, 2)but that is probably overkill for simply squaring a number.