'''
Can you write a short piece of python code that raises a to the power b? | Now can you do the same using only arithmetic operators?  | Now what if b was any positive real number? | And if you could not use math.pow ?
'''
a = 2
b = 3
result = a ** b
print(result)

#arthimetic operators 

a = 2
b = 3
result = 1

# Multiply 'a' with itself 'b' number of times
for i in range(b):
    result *= a

print(result)

#if b was any positive real number
a = 2
b = 3.5
result = pow(a, b)
print(result)
#using math.pow
a = 2
b = 3.5

if a == 0:
    result = 0
elif a < 0 and b % 1 == 0:
    result = -1 * (abs(a) ** b)
else:
    sign = 1 if a > 0 else -1
    result = sign * (abs(a) ** b)
print(result)