Can someone help me explain because am really confused here.

Question

When I print the exponential of 9 ** 1/2, I get 4.5 but when I print 9 ** 0.5 that's when I get 3.0 but in the python 3 course it's saying the exponential of 9 ** 1/2 is 3.0

Answer 1

Order of operations will make:

9**1/2

Equivalent to:

(9**1) / 2

Try:

9**(1/2)

Answer 2

de malong Yep. This would apply in all programming languages, as well as, written math and standard calculators.

Answer 3

This is a copy from the python tutorial:

>>> 2**5
32
>>> 9 ** (1/2)
3.0

Answer 4

Yeah that what I thought but the tutorials says otherwise https://www.sololearn.com/learn/JUMP_LINK__&&__Python__&&__JUMP_LINK/2273/

Answer 5

David Carroll thanks it work so basically we'd have to put brackets around 1/2