[Tutor] Question on how to do exponents

[Sarma Tangirala]

On 7 February 2012 13:49, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 07/02/12 01:01, Nate Lastname wrote:
>
>> Exponents ... are **(or ^)
>>
>
> Not quite the ^ operator is a bitwise XOR...
>
> >>> 2^2
> 0
> >>> 2^1
> 3
>
> pow() is the other way to do exponents.
>
>
Is is better to use pow() against **?


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