Help with Exponentiation (Python 3)

Question

Ok, so I’ve only just started to get into coding but there’s one thing that confuses me.
*2 = Multiplying by 2
**2 = To the power of 2
That part makes sense, I don’t understand the ** (1/2), does that basically mean the square root, if so does ** (1/3) result in the cube root?
Any help would be great, just picked Computer Science for my GCSEs and I’m trying to really get a grasp of coding.

Answer 1

y=x**(1/n) is such y**n=x so yes

Answer 2

This is not really coding, this is mathematical notations. Applies for any language having a.power operator (some low level languages dont)