Re: Why Java's math expression (power) is so inconvenient and error prone?

Lionel wrote:
My program need a lot of calculation of power. In many programming
languages,

2**3 = 8;

The syntax is clean and easy. But in Java,

Math.pow(2, 3) = 8; //It is so long, and complicated and error prone

Again, in many languages,

EXP(1) = 2.7 //e value

But in Java,

Math.pow(Math.E, 1) = 2.7 //You see, so complicated

Error prone? All the above answers look correct. Can you tell us how it is error prone?

I agree with that.

It looks like you have come from C and are expecting non-object-oriented code. Simple, get over it.

Actually C is very similar to Java. C does not have an
exponentation operator like Fortran and VB.

If that is still too difficult I suggestion you learn about the advantages of an Object-Oriented programming language.

Hm.

I would not consider the Math static methods so fantastic
object oriented ...

Arne
.

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