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Write a Python program that prompts the user to enter a base number and an exponent, and then calculates the power of the base to the exponent. The program should not use the exponentiation operator (**) or the math.pow() function. The program should handle both positive and negative exponents.

Source Code

# Prompt the user to enter the base number and exponent
base = float(input("Enter the base number: "))
exponent = int(input("Enter the exponent: "))

# Initialize the result variable
result = 1

# Calculate the power
if exponent >= 0:
    for i in range(exponent):
        result *= base
else:
    for i in range(exponent,0):
        result /= base

# Print the result
print(base, "raised to the power of", exponent, "is:", result)

Output