Recursive Exponentiation

Program below is similar to the previous exponentiation program except the function execute recursively.

/*
   title: RecursiveExponentiation
   author: aeriqusyairi
   date: Jan24 2012
*/
#include<stdio.h>

int power(int, int);

int main(){
    int number = 0, toPower = 0;
    
    printf("Enter base:");
    scanf("%d", &number);
    printf("Enter exponent:");
    scanf("%d", &toPower);
    
    printf("%d to the power of %d is %d.\n", number, toPower, power(number, toPower));
    
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

int power(int base, int exponent){
   if(exponent == 1)
      return base;
   else
      return base * power(base, exponent - 1);    
}