Why did political parties take over by the end of the G.W Presidency?

Washington recognizes that it is natural for people To organize and operate within groups such as political parties but he also argues that every government has become recognized political parties as an enemy and has sought to repress them because of their tendency to seek more power than other groups and to take revenge.

You're substracting one from the variable "exponent" with every iteration of the loop, and you told it to break out of the loop once "exponent" is 0, therefore, it's always going to end up as 0 at the end.

If you want to keep the input from the user, then declare another variable like "counter" and assign the value of "exponent" to it and use it for the loop

Or even better, do this for the loop:

for(int i = 0; i < exponent; i++)

{

//Code here

}