How do I calculate power-of in C#?

Question

I\'m not that great with maths and C# doesn\'t seem to provide a power-of function so I was wondering if anyone knows how I would run a calculation like this:

Answer 1

For powers of 2:

var twoToThePowerOf = 1 << yourExponent;
// eg: 1 << 12 == 4096

Answer 2

The function you want is Math.Pow in System.Math.