How to get the power of a number in J2ME [duplicate]

Answer 1

When developing applications for mobile devices using Java, you may require mathematical methods not available on your particular Java VM. You can use this code. It will helps you.

public double pow(double x, double y)
    {
        return powTaylor(x,y);
    }

    public double powSqrt(double x, double y)
    {
        int den = 1024, num = (int)(y*den), iterations = 10;
        double n = Double.MAX_VALUE;

        while( n >= Double.MAX_VALUE && iterations > 1)
        {
            n = x;

            for( int i=1; i < num; i++ )n*=x;

            if( n >= Double.MAX_VALUE ) 
            {
                iterations--;
                den = (int)(den / 2);
                num = (int)(y*den);
            }
        }   

        for( int i = 0; i = Double.MAX_VALUE )
        {
            den -=1;
            num = (int)(y*den);
            s = (num/den)+1;

            z = x; 
            for( int i = 1; i < num; i++ )z *= x;
        }

        while( n > 0 )
        {
            double a = n;

            for( int i = 1; i < den; i++ )a *= n;

            if( (a-z) < .00001 || (z-a) > .00001 ) return n;

            n *= .9999;                          
        }

        return -1.0;
    }

    double powTaylor(double a, double b)
    {
        boolean gt1 = (Math.sqrt((a-1)*(a-1)) <= 1)? false:true; 
        int oc = -1,iter = 30;
        double p = a, x, x2, sumX, sumY;

        if( (b-Math.floor(b)) == 0 )
        {
            for( int i = 1; i < b; i++ )p *= a;
            return p;
        }

        x = (gt1)?(a /(a-1)):(a-1);
        sumX = (gt1)?(1/x):x;

        for( int i = 2; i < iter; i++ )
        {
            p = x;
            for( int j = 1; j < i; j++)p *= x;

            double xTemp = (gt1)?(1/(i*p)):(p/i);

            sumX = (gt1)?(sumX+xTemp):(sumX+(xTemp*oc));

            oc *= -1;
        }

        x2 = b * sumX;
        sumY = 1+x2;

        for( int i = 2; i <= iter; i++ )
        {
            p = x2;
            for( int j = 1; j < i; j++)p *= x2;

            int yTemp = 2;
            for( int j = i; j > 2; j-- )yTemp *= j;

            sumY += p/yTemp;
        }

        return sumY;
    }