he is questioning the complexity and not the algorithm... btw, you are right


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think that this function is doing what you want it to do. If
> you ask for a^b, it returns a^1 in most cases.
>
> Try this instead.
>
> int power(int a, int b)
> {
>  int result = 1;
>  if (b == 1) result = a;
>  else if (b>1)
>  {
>    result = power(a,b/2);
>    result *= result;
>    if (b%2) result *= a;
>  }
>  return result;
> }
>
> On Aug 8, 10:37 pm, rohit <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  int get_power(int a, int b)
> > {
> > if(!b)
> > return 1;
> > if(b%2)
> >  return a * get_power(a, b/2);
> >  return get_power(a, b/2);
> >  }
> >
> > int func(int p)
> > { int sum = 0;
> >  for(int i = 1; i <= p; ++i)
> > {
> > sum += get_power(i, 5);}
> >
> > return sum;
> >
> > }
>
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