Some questions on pow and random

[joy99]

On Mar 27, 4:36 pm, Mark Dickinson <dicki... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 11:07 am, joy99 <subhakolkata1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > (b) Suppose we have two distributions p(x1) and p(x2), of the Model M,
> > the E of EM algorithm, without going into much technical details is,
> > P0(x1,x2), P1(x1,x2) ....
>
> > Now I am taking random.random() to generate both x1 and x2 and trying
> > to multiply them, is it fine? Or should I take anything else?
>
> Sorry, it's unclear to me what you're asking here.  Can you rephrase
> this as a question about Python's random.random() function?
>
> If you're asking whether it's okay to regard your generated x1 and x2
> as independent, then the answer is yes.
>
> --
> Mark

Dear Mark,
Thank you for kindly allowing your time to put your kind suggestions.
I am trying to rephrase my questions, as you might have asked it.

(i) Suppose we have 8 which is 2^3 i.e., 3 is the power of 2, which we
are writing in Python as,
variable1=2
variable2=3
result=pow(variable1,variable2)

In my first problem p(x) a list of float/decimals and f(x) is another
such.
Here,
variable1=p(x)
variable2=f(x)
so that we can write, pow(variable1,variable2) but as it is a list not
a number and as the size is huge, so would it pow support it?
As I copied the question from word processor to the post, so there was
a slight confusion.

(ii) The second question is, if I have another set of variables,

variable1=random.random()
variable2=random.random()

Now my question is, can I do
result=variable1*variable2

Or should I do anything else?

Best Regards,
Subhabrata.