Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes: > > Try hex(33**33). > > You're usually smarter than this, or am I missing some joke? > > >>> hex(33*33) > '0x441' You used only one * (multiplication), I used two *'s (exponentiation). >>> hex(33**33) '0x5857366DCE0162CB5DDCD1BF0FC7C03A6438304421L'