[Tutor] Order Of Operations Question

[Eike Welk]

Hello David!

On Thursday July 29 2010 01:00:15 David Hutto wrote:

> but as a quick question, why does:
> >>> 5e18 == 5**18
> 
> False

5e18 is a short form of a somewhat complex term:

5e18 == 5 * 10**18 == 5000000000000000000


But 5**18 is just the exponentiation operator:

5**18 == 3814697265625


Eike.