Quick recursive function question

[eladage]

I can't figure out why this is not returning the correct result.

  int  raiseToPowerR(int base, int exponent)  // assume exponent > 0
{
    
    if (exponent <=1) return 1;
    
    return  base * raiseToPowerR(base, exponent-1);
    
}

Thanks for looking.

[wildblue]

Your base case on line 4 needs to be tweaked. Right now, any number raised to 1 is going to return the value 1 - which isn't correct. That's throwing your result off.

[eladage]

Oh duh, thanks man.