Currently, math.Pow() and math.sqrt take float64 type arguments.
Do we have equivalent functions that take int type arguments?
What you can do is type-cast a float to your value.
int a=10,b=2;
math.Pow(float(a),float(b));
just create a float64 object using the int value. Example if int = 10.
var x float64 = 10
var b = math.Pow(2, x)
There are fast approximate algorithms described elsewhere on SO, such as this one. If performance is important, porting one of the C algorithms to Go might be worth the effort.
If your return value is a float, you can use Ceil or Floor from the math package and then convert it to an int.
n := 5.5
o := math.Floor(n)
p := int(math.Pow(o, 2))
fmt.Println("Float:", n)
fmt.Println("Floor:", o)
fmt.Println("Square:", p)
5.5
5
25
Keep in mind that Floor still returns a float64, so you will still want to wrap it in int()