[FurryRock]

How am I getting two different results? I'm wanting to know what 2^3^4 is for practice. But I'm getting two different answers.

http://imgur.com/a/1qpLQ

[Sikom]

2^3^4 = 2^81 = 2.417852×10^24
(2^3)^4 = 2^3*4 = 2^12 = 4096

The two things are widely different, that's why you get different answers

Got me @FurryRock

[FurryRock]

2^3^4 = 2^81 = 2.417852×10^24
(2^3)^4 = 2^3*4 = 2^12 = 4096

The two things are widely different, that's why you get different answers

Got me @FurryRock

Man I need to go back to 9th grade, it looks like with knowledge of PEMDAS that the first equation would be:
2^3^4
8^4
4096

But apparently you need to solve 3^4 first, yeah I need to go back to school. Thanks tho.

[Desolate]

Damn simplaygames is coming up in he world!!! good job bud

[Inori]

It seems your problem is already resolved, but I would recommend using the builtin pow() method. It's implemented in C (in Python 3, anyway), so it executes faster than the double star (**) operator in any case I can recall, and it tends to be far less confusing in big equations if you're familiar with Python's syntax.

Code:

>>> (2**3)**4 4096 >>> pow(pow(2,3),4) 4096