On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 10:15 -0800, databyss wrote: > I have a simple program and the output isn't what I expect. Could > somebody please explain why? > [...] > v**v**v**v = 2**2**2**2 = 65536 > > I would expect 2**2**2**2 to be 256
Exponentiation is right-associative. 2**2**2**2 = 2**(2**(2**2)) = 2**(2**4) = 2**16 = 65536. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
