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What does the ** operator do in Python?
What does the ** do/mean in following python code?
range(2,int(startnumber**0.5)+1)
I was working with some Fibonacci numbers and fell over the function on the internet. Can’t seem to find it in the documentation
It means “to the power of.” So
x**2means x squared, andx**0.5means the square root of x.