C++ <valarray> - pow() Function

The C++ <valarray> pow() function returns a valarray containing the result of x raised to the power y (x^y).

If x and y both are valarrays of same size, the function computes the values of each element in x raised to the power specified by the corresponding element from y. The behavior is undefined if size of x and y are not equal.
If x is a valarray and y is a value, the function computes the values of each element in x raised to the power y.
If x is a value and y is a valarray, the function computes x raised to the power defined by the elements in y.

This function overloads with cmath's pow() function.

Syntax

template<class T> valarray<T> pow 
  (const valarray<T>& x, const valarray<T>& y);
template<class T> valarray<T> pow 
  (const valarray<T>& x, const T& y);
template<class T> valarray<T> pow 
  (const T& x, const valarray<T>& y);

Parameters

`x`	Specify a valarray or a value for the bases for the power operations.
`y`	Specify a valarray or a value for the exponent for the power operations.

Return Value

Returns valarray containing the results of exponentiation.

Example:

The example below shows the usage of pow() function.

#include <iostream>
#include <valarray>
using namespace std;
 
int main (){
  valarray<double> va = {1, 2, 3, 4};

  cout<<"va contains: ";
  for(int i = 0; i < va.size(); i++)
    cout<<va[i]<<" ";

  valarray<double> result1 = pow(va, va);
  cout<<"\nva^va returns: ";
  for(int i = 0; i < result1.size(); i++)
    cout<<result1[i]<<" ";  

  valarray<double> result2 = pow(va, 2.0);
  cout<<"\nva^2.0 returns: ";
  for(int i = 0; i < result2.size(); i++)
    cout<<result2[i]<<" ";  

  valarray<double> result3 = pow(2.0, va);
  cout<<"\n2.0^va returns: ";
  for(int i = 0; i < result3.size(); i++)
    cout<<result3[i]<<" ";  

  return 0;
}

The output of the above code will be:

va contains: 1 2 3 4 
va^va returns: 1 4 27 256 
va^2.0 returns: 1 4 9 16 
2.0^va returns: 2 4 8 16

❮ C++ <valarray> Library