What does ** mean?

Question

Print (5**5)
Gives me 3125 what's is the ** doing?

Answer 1

It's an exponent/power operator.

5**5 = 5 × 5 × 5 × 5 × 5 = 3125

Answer 2

Please refer 9.2.2. Power and logarithmic functions :

https://docs.python.org/2/library/math.html

Answer 3

5^5

Answer 4

5**2; ** will raise power 2 to the 5 i.e. 5^2 = 25