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Asked: 2026-05-26T17:31:07+00:00

Is there anyway I can do this without using ifs? Like I want to

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Is there anyway I can do this without using ifs?

Like I want to do Math.Pow(-5f,2f) to come out as -25 not 25?

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about with Math.Sign:

    Returns a value indicating the sign of a single-precision
    floating-point number.

    So the computation would be:

    Math.Sign(x) * Math.Pow(x, y)

    If the idea is to always use the sign of the first operand even when the Pow operation returns a negative value (instead of just negating the result when the first operand is negative), you can do:

    Math.Sign(x) * Math.Abs(Math.Pow(x, y))
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