Thread: The powers (that be)

I wrote a program to multiply any floating point number by any integer either positive or negative:

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Code:

int main()
{
    int count, y, finish;
    float x, z;
    
    while(finish!=0)
    {
    printf("Enter base number\n");
    scanf("%f", &x);
    printf("Enter power number\n");
    scanf("%d", &y);
    
if (y>0)     
{    
    z=1;
    for(count=1;count<=y;count++)
    {
     z=z*x;
    }
}    

else;
{
    z=1;
    for(count=-1;count>=y;count--)
    {
     z=z*x;
    }
}

printf("Answer = %f\n", z);
printf("Enter 0 to quit\n");
scanf("%d", &finish);
}
}

Every time it prints the answer as 1.00000 and i dont know why