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Subject: Re: Confusing math problem
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Schizoid Man <schiz_man@21stcentury.com> wrote:
>
> No, I was aware to be honest. I thought ** was just short hand for
> math.pow(). Since ** is the integer operation, I suppose ^ doesn't work as
> an exponent function in Python?

^ is bitwise XOR, completely different.

ChrisA