Problems

Question

Whenever I use the ^2 exponent in Javascript, no matter what the base is, the answer is always 2.

100^2 = 2
5^2 = 2
1^2 = 2

Any ideas how/why this is happening?

Answer 1

^ is xor, 2^2 should be 0
https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_bitwise.asp

Answer 2

is this what you're looking for?

Math.pow(5, 2)

Answer 3

when I tried it inside an alert function I got 102

Answer 4

or 5**2

Answer 5

Hmmm, I was so used to using ^ for exponents. Thanks for the help!