[Tutor] Quick Question

[lumbricus@gmx.net]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:05:48PM +1000, Glen Wheeler wrote:
>   Hey guys,
and girls ;-)
> 
>   I've been writing up a bunch of graphing tools in python...just for fun, and on paper I write x squared as x^2 - this is normal for me.
>   However, in python, it is x**2 - right?
ACK
>   My question is, what does x^2 do?  It seems like x^y === x + y - is this true?
NACK:
the "^" operator is (like in c) a bitwise exclusive OR

> 
>   Thanks,
>   Glen.
HTH
Jö

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You'd like to do it instantaneously, but that's too slow.