How I can create my own pow function using PHP? - php

Question

I want to create a function in which I put two values (value and its power - Example function: multiply(3, 3) result 27). I have tried so far but failed, I have searched using Google but I have been unable to find any result because I don't know the name of this function.
What I want exactly:
3,3 => 3 x 3 x 3 = 27
4,4 => 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 = 256
What I tried:
function multiply($value,$power){
for($x = 1; $x <= $value; $x++ ){
return $c = $value * $power;
}
}
echo multiply(3,3);

Answer 1

The answer has already been accepted, but I had to come here and say that all answers here use a bad algorithm. There are better ones. Including very simple ones, like exponentiation by squaring that reduces the complexity from O(power) to O(log(power)).
The idea is to square the base while dividing the exponent by 2. For example
3^8 = 9^4 = 81^2 = 6561
There is a special case when the exponent is odd. In this case, you must store a separate variable to represent this factor:
2^10 = 4^5 = 16^2 * 4 = 256 * 4 = 1024
PHP isn't one of my strong skills, but the final algorithm is as simple as:
function multiply($value, $power){
$free = 1;
while ($power > 1) {
if ($power % 2 == 1)
$free *= $value;
$value *= $value;
$power >>= 1; //integer divison by 2
}
return $value*$free;
}
echo multiply(3, 3) . "\n";
echo multiply(2, 10) . "\n";
echo multiply(3, 8) . "\n";

Answer 2

Oopsika, couldn't have asked a more obvious question. Use the built-in function named pow (as in a lot of languages)
echo pow(3, 3);
Edit
Let's create our own function.
function raiseToPower($base,$exponent)
{
// multiply the base to itself exponent number of times
$result=1;
for($i=1;$i<=$exponent;$i++)
{
$result = $result * $base;
}
return $result;
}

Answer 3

function exponent($value,$power)
{
$c=1;
for($x = 1; $x <= $power; $x++ )
{
$c = $value * $c;
}
return $c;
}

Answer 4

If you have PHP >= 5.6 you can use the ** operator
$a ** $b Exponentiation Result of raising $a to the $b'th power.
echo 2 ** 3;
If you have PHP < 5.6 you can use pow:
number pow ( number $base , number $exp )
echo pow(2, 3);
Your own function is:
function multiply($value, $power) {
$result = 1;
for($x = 1; $x <= $power; $x++){
$result *= $value;
}
return $result;
}
echo multiply(3,3);
Read more at:
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.arithmetic.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.pow.php

Answer 5

Just try to run this code I hope your problem will be solved.
If you defining any function then you have to call it return value.
<?php
function multiply($value,$exp)
{ $temp=1;
if($exp==0)
return $temp;
else
{
for($i=1;$i<=$exp;$i++)
$temp=$temp*$value;
return $temp;
}
}
echo multiply(5,6);
?>

Answer 6

echo "Enter number (will be mutiplied):".PHP_EOL;
$value = (int) readline("> ");
echo "Enter number for multiplier:".PHP_EOL;
$multiplier = (int) readline("> ");
function power(int $i, int $n):int {
$result =1;
for ($int = 1; $int < $n; $int++){
$result *= $i;
}
return $result;
}
echo power($value,$multiplier);