Hello, I'm learning Java from a book, and having some trouble compiling with Math.pow. According to the book, this little program should print the value of 5 raised to the fourth power:

public class Math5
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        System.out.println(Math.pow(5.0,4.0));

    }
}

But when I compile it, I receive an error message "cannot find symbol
symbol : method pow (double,double)." The location is marked as the dot between Math and pow.

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Turns out the code was fine. I had saved another file as Math.java, which it turns out causes havoc, because Java starts looking to that file for all math operations. Deleting the file fixed it.

you need to have a variable name so as to initialise it;for instance,

int number = 5;
int constant = 4;
double raise = 0;

raise = Math.pow(number,constant);
when you run this u should have 625 as your ans.

it will run and print the result

625.0

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hey, I got the answer for it