how to raise a number to a power in javascript code example

Example 1: javascript squared

//squared numbers

Math.pow(x1, 2)
x1 * x1
x1 ** 2                  // ES6 syntax

Example 2: exponent in javascript

let number = 2;
let exponent = 3;

//using the exponent operator
console.log( number ** exponent);
// using the Math library 
console.log( Math.pow(number, exponent);
// these will both output 8

Example 3: exponential javascript

// Use Math.exp(a) to return the exponential of the value passed
var num = Math.exp(1)