Exercise: Exponential Growth

Write a console program that visualizes exponential growth. The program should:

• Read a number from the user. You'll use that number as the maximum exponent. Make sure it's lower than 32.
• Count from 1 up to and including that number.
• Print the result of 2 to the power of the current count. You can exponentiate in Java with int power = (int) Math.pow(2, currentCount);
• Draw as many stars as the result of the exponentiation.

Your program output should look exactly like this (user input in green):

Enter maximum exponent: 8
2^1 = 2
**
2^2 = 4
****
2^3 = 8
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2^4 = 16
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2^5 = 32
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2^6 = 64
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2^7 = 128
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2^8 = 256
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You'll probably need to scroll to see all the stars.

If the user enters a number that's too high, just print an error message:

Enter maximum exponent: 32
Input is too high, enter a number smaller than 32.

Hand in instructions

1. Make sure your program runs correctly.
2. Follow Java naming conventions of variables.
3. Make sure your program is well-formatted.
4. Hand in your program by uploading Main.java to Moodle.