i*i is shorter and (maybe) a little faster with many numbers

a and b already are of the type byte, so casting them will not do anything. However, the addition operator + returns an int (as bytes are not necessarily used as numbers, so a + b implicitly does is (int) a + (int) b), hence we do need to cast the result.

Is there much difference between using Math.Pow() and i**i?

You're simply printing a string and returning a number, not what you should do, read the instructions again.

Nice one - glad I could help!

Thank you so much! I found it were that the data was outputting to much data so when you said to check my loop i knew it couldnt have been that since its just iterating n times then i relised it was the Console.WriteLines's i had!

Thank you for your service.

This error happens when the code is outputting too much data to the log window. So this could be caused by using Console.WriteLine a lot or by writing to the log window inside an (infinite) loop. Have a careful look to make sure the loop is being terminated.

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I wanna believe im learning i really do but it seems im getting a Max Buffer Size Reached (1.5 MiB) error?
Using C# btw

Does this seem a bit much?

not an issue.

the instructions should be spaced out more. they were almost a entire sentence making it a little difficult understanding the recommended order they should go in.