Assert in a power function implementation in C++ [duplicate]

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Why am I getting an assert error from the following code and how could I fix it?

double res = 1;
    for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {res*=x;}

    assert(pow(x, n) == res);

n is unsigned int, x is double.