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# pow

## Name

pow — return the value of the first parameter raised to the power of the second

## Declaration

`genType pow(` | genType x,
| genType y`)`;

## Parameters

`x`

  Specify the value to raise to the power `y`.

`y`

  Specify the power to which to raise `x`.

## Description

`pow` returns the value of `x` raised to the `y` power. i.e., x y. Results are undefined if `x` < 0 or if `x` == 0 and `y` ≤ 0.

## Version Support

| OpenGL ES Shading Language Version
--- | ---
Function Name | 1.00 | 3.00 | 3.10
pow | ✔ | ✔ | ✔

## See Also

exp

## Copyright

Copyright © 2011-2014 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. https://opencontent.org/openpub/.

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