/sci/ - Science & Math

>a hard feel
>hard enough to break diamond

>humans
>smart

Wanna try again?

>breathing

>that pic
>excluding the most potent one:
>orgasm

oh and
>putting lines through your zero's
>ISHYGDDT

>>4079759
>believing animals CAN'T be programmed
>thinks we have free will

Lol free will fags

Well I'm probably gonna mess this shit all over so forgive me if you think you're reading something a monkey typed.

I'm learning how to program functions on C, using Dev C++, I was doing my first exercise (to make a function that does the same that the function pow(x,y) does) and after trying to compile this code:

main()
{
float base, pot();
int exponent;
printf("Type base and exponent");
scanf("%f %d",&base,&exponent);
printf("\nThe power is %f\n",pot(base,exponent));
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

float pot(a,n)
{
float a;
int n;
if (n<1)
return(a*pot(a,n-1));}

I get these error messages from the compiler:
In function pot:
a redeclared as different kind of symbol
previous definition of a was here.
And the same for n.

Can someone tell me what does this mean, why does it happen and how to fix it? Also if you could tell me if my recursive approach is right (which I doubt) I would thank you a lot.

>2011
>C
Pic related

>2011
>it's 2012 in less than two months
ISHYGDDT

>>3979106
>he can't just derive trig identities from the unit circle as he goes along

>cold fusion

stopped reading there

Did it.

>Philosophy, art, engineering, and social studies are more important than science

>putting engineering in the same cluster with art

ISHYGDDT

>not picking number one
>not letting me do your homework for you

>>3696035
>thinking biology is a soft science